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- Trogon tenellus
Identification
23.5–26 cm
Male
- Green head, upper breast and back
- Throat and face black
- Yellow bill
- Eye-ring pale blue, more prominent in front of and behind the eye
- Belly yellow, offset from breast by narrow to inconspicuous white band
- Undertail white, barred black, but with large white subterminal bands on each feather
- Upperside of tail green with bluish sheen
- Wing coverts with black and white vermiculations
Female
- Brown head, upper breast and back
- Rufous upper tail
- Yellow belly
- Mostly yellow bill
- Pale eye-ring wider behind and in front of the eye
Similar species
Similar species with overlapping range differ in having full black hood in the male (Black-headed Trogon) or by having yellow eye-rings (Gartered Trogon).
Distribution
Tropical south-eastern Honduras to extreme north-western Colombia
Taxonomy
Black-throated Trogon was in 2024 split into four species:
- Northern Black-throated Trogon - Tropical south-eastern Honduras to extreme north-western Colombia
- Choco Black-throated Trogon - Tropical western Colombia and western Ecuador
- Amazonian Black-throated Trogon - Amazonian South America from eastern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to Amazonian Venezuela and the Guianas, as well as to Amazonian Brazil
- Atlantic Black-throated Trogon - northeastern Brazil to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
Subspecies
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Behaviour
Vocalisation
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- van Dort, J. and P. Pyle (2023). Northern Black-throated Trogon (Trogon tenellus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg and M. A. Bridwell, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bkttro7.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Northern Black-throated Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Black-throated_Trogon
External Links
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