Collared Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies exoptatus, Male on left, female on right
Photos © by Steve G
(Male) Bloody Bay, Roxborough Road, Tobago, 1 August 2006; (female) Main Ridge Reserve, Tobago, 30 July 2006

Trogon collaris

Includes Orange-bellied Trogon

Identification

25cm
Male

Green back, head and breast
White line separates breast from red underparts
Black-barred white undertail
Black wings with white vermiculations

Female, subspecies puella
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Bajos del Toro, Costa Rica, March 2008

Female

Brown back, head and breast
Paler red underparts

Variation

Subspecies aurantiiventris, Orange-bellied Trogon
Photo by Cedric K
El Cope National Park, Panama in March 2005

Orange-bellied Trogon

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 10 subspecies^[1]:

T. c. puella: Tropical and subtropical central Mexico to western Panama
T. c. underwoodi: Humid montane forests of nw Costa Rica
T. c. aurantiiventris: highlands of central and southern Costa Rica to western Panama
T. c. extimus: Subtropical eastern Panama
T. c. heothinus: Eastern Panama (Darién)
T. c. virginalis: Western Colombia to western Ecuador (El Oro)
T. c. subtropicalis: Central Colombia
T. c. exoptatus: Northern Colombia, northern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
T. c. collaris: Eastern Colombia to Bolivia, Venezuela and the Guianas
T. c. castaneus: central South America south of the Amazon, from Peru and Bolivia east to Pará; and eastern Brazil from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro

The subspecies underwoodi and aurantiiventris were until recently considered a separate species: Orange-bellied Trogon (Trogon aurantiiventris)

Habitat

Edge of humid forest and in woodland. In both primary and secondary growth.

Behaviour

Breeding

It nests in a hole in a termite nest or tree. The clutch consists of 2 white eggs.

Diet

The diet includes insects and fruit.

Vocalisation

Call: caow, caow, caow.

References

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/
Avibase
BirdForum Member observations
Collar, N. (2019). Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris). 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/55704 on 30 July 2019).
Inman, S. (2013). Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.coltro1.01

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Collared Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Collared_Trogon

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