- Trogon violaceus
Identification
23–25 cm (9-9¾ in)
Male:
- Blue head and upper breast
- Green back, becoming bluer on the rump
- White line separating breast from golden yellow underparts, but this is sometimes hard to detect (may to some extent depend on subspecies)
- Yellow circular eye-ring
- White undertail with black barring
- Black wings vermiculated with white.
Female: Dark grey back, head and breast. White oval-shaped eye-ring may only consist of front and back (brackets).
Similar Species
Female Violaceous Trogons resemble the larger female White-tailed Trogon but have a broken dirty yellow-white eyering rather than the complete bluish-white eyering of W-T Trogon.
Distribution
South America: found in Trinidad, most of Venezuela, The Guianas, and adjacent Brazil
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
This species was formerly included in Violaceous Trogon.
Habitat
Moist tropical primary evergreen forests.
Behaviour
Sits very upright on horizontal branches.
Breeding
They nest in a wasp, ant or termite nest or utilise a hole in a rotten tree. The clutch consists of 2-3 white eggs.
Diet
The diet consists of fruit and invertebrates.
Vocalisation
Song is described in variable ways from different geographic regions.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- SACC proposal to split Gartered from Violaceous Trogon read August 2009
- Birdforum thread discussing the splits of Violaceous Trogon
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2016)
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Guianan Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Guianan_Trogon
