Black-tailed Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Adult male, subspecies T. m. eumorphus
Photo © by Xyko Paludo
Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, 28 December 2017

Trogon melanurus

Identification

Male

• Yellow bill
• Orange-red eye-ring around dark eye
• Thin white chest band between dark green breast and red belly
• Slaty grey undertail
  

Female

• Grey above and below
• Red lower belly
• Virtually no eye-ring
• Grey on upper mandible (nominate subspecies only)

Distribution

Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, The Guianas. Ecuadorian Trogon is isolated west of the Andes in western Ecuador and north-western Peru.

Taxonomy

In 2008, the South American Classification Committee voted to split Ecuadorian Trogon from this species: Citation

Subspecies^[1]

Adult female, subspecies T. m. eumorphus
Photo © by sungrebe
Sani Lodge canopy tower, Ecuador, 28 August 2013

• T. m. macroura (Large-tailed):

• Eastern Panama (Canal Zone) to northern Colombia
  

Melanurus Group

• T. m. melanurus:

• Eastern Colombia to the Guianas, northern Bolivia and eastern Brazil

• T. m. eumorphus:

• Southern Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil

• T. m. occidentalis:

• South-eastern Brazil (São Paulo region)

Habitat

Canopy and sub-canopy of humid forest and forest edges.

Behaviour

The diet includes fruits.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. SACC proposal for splitting Black-tailed Trogon
3. Arthur Grosset
4. Black-tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/blttro1
5. Collar, N. & Kirwan, G.M. (2019). Black-tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/55710 on 12 August 2019).
6. Schulenberg, T. S. & Stotz, D. F. & Lane, D. F. & O'Neill, J. P. & Parker III, T. A. & Egg, A. B. (2010). Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691130231

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-tailed Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-tailed_Trogon

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