Northern Black-throated Trogon - BirdForum Opus

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Male, Subspecies tenellus
Photo by Stanley Jones
Bosque del Río Tigre Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, February 2015

Trogon tenellus

Identification

Female, subspeceis tenellus
Photo by rdavis
Carara National Park, Costa Rica, December 2015

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].

References

1. 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/
2. 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/

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Northern Black-throated Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Black-throated_Trogon

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