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 and north-western Peru
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, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://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 27 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Collared_Trogon

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