Amazonian Black-throated Trogon

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Male, subspecies xxx
Photo by Lcverissimo
Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, April 2014

Trogon rufus

Identification

23–25 cm (9-9¾ in)
Male

• Green head, upper breast and back
• Black throat and face
• Yellow bill
• Pale blue eye-ring
• Yellow belly
• White undertail, barred black
• Black and white wing coverts
  

Female

• Brown head, upper breast and back
• Rufous upper tail
• Yellow belly
• Mostly yellow bill
• Pale eye-ring wider behind and in front of the eye

Variation

It is possible to find males of this species with yellow eye-ring

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

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

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

• T. r. rufus:

• Eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and northern Brazil (Rio Negro region)

• T. r. amazonicus:

• Southern Venezuela and north-eastern Brazil

• T. r. sulphureus:

• Eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, southern Venezuela and western Brazil

Habitat

Lowland humid neotropical forest, Atlantic slope forest and neotropical mature wet lowlands.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of arthropods and fruit, though they may eat less fruit than other similar trogons.

Breeding

The nest is an unlined shallow cavity, and 2 white eggs are laid.

Vocalisation

Call: krrrrrr
Song: cuh cuh cuh cuh

References

1. 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/
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)
5. Birdforum thread with report of yellow eye-ring in Black-throated Trogon

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Amazonian Black-throated Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amazonian_Black-throated_Trogon

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