A jewel of the forest interior: emerald back, scarlet belly, and a habit of sitting motionless for minutes at a time. Its soft, repeated hoot is easy to overlook, so most sightings come from scanning mid-level branches where a bird has just turned to show its red front.
Did you know?
The species is named after Narina, a Khoikhoi woman, by the French explorer Le Vaillant in the 1780s.
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