Blue-crowned Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by ciroalbano
Serra da Aratanha, Ceará State, Brazil, July 2006

Trogon curucui

Identification

Male

• Black face and throat
• Greenish-blue crown, neck, breast and uppertail
• Red belly
• Black, finely vermiculated wings
• Pale grey-horn to yellow bill
• Yellow eyering
  

Female

Male
Photo by Arthur Grosset
Cristalino Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003

• Red belly
• White chest
• Grey breast
• Black upper mandible, grey below
• Broken white eye ring
• Wings barred white black
• White edged and black notched undertail

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• T. c. peruvianus:

• South-central Colombia to Ecuador, Peru and eastern Brazil

• T. c. curucui:

• Humid eastern Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia

• T. c. behni:

• Eastern Bolivia to southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina

Two additional subspecies bolivianus and variegatus are not recognised by all authorities^[2].

Habitat

Found in a wide variety of habitats from forest to scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes insects and small fruit.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Blue-crowned Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-crowned_Trogon

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