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adult male
Photo by Peter R. Bono
Dos Lagunas, northeast of San Cristobal des las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009
Trogon mexicanus

Identification

Distribution

Northern El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized[1].

  • T. m. clarus - highlands of northwestern Mexico (southern Chihuahua, eastern Sinaloa, and Durango)
  • T. m. mexicanus - highlands of western, eastern, and southern Mexico south to Honduras and northern El Salvador

Habitat

Moist montane forests and pine-evergreen and pine-oak woodland.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

Recommended Citation

External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

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