Malabar trogon is one of the flagship species from our WGhats. Its habitat is mainly evergreen and deciduous forests. It nests in a tree cavity. It is primarily insectivorous and hawks its prey (catches the insect in flight) and crushes them with its beak before swallowing them.

Harpactes originates from the Greek word “Harpax”, which means roughly “a person who captures someone”, and could be because of the way it hawks for its food. Fasciatus means striped (see the feather pattern).