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- Trogon chrysochloros
Identification
23–25 cm (9-9¾ in)
Male
- Head and mantle coppery green
- Throat and face black
- Rump plain green to bluish green
- Uppertail green occasionally to coppery-green, with moderate black terminal band; no subterminal band
- Breast blue-green to golden-green
- Belly yellow
- White band separating yellow belly from breast can be complete, incomplete, or absent
- Undertail barred black and white, 6-7 bars per cm, usually wider black than white
- Wing coverts black and white with about 14-15.5 bars per cm
- Bill yellow
- Eye-ring blue to blue-grey
Female
- Head, upper breast and back brown with yellowish tones
- Uppertail dark rufous-brown
- Yellow belly
- Undertail barred black and white with 4-5 bars per cm; black bars narrower than white
- Undertail infused with brown either basally or at the edge in about half the birds
- Bill mostly yellow
- Eye-ring blue-grey
Distribution
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. muriciensis:
- Alagoas, Brazil (Murici forest)
- T. r. chrysochloros:
Habitat
Behaviour
Vocalisation
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Paper discussing the taxonomy of the former members of Black-throated Trogon
- van Dort, J. and P. Pyle (2023). Atlantic Black-throated Trogon (Trogon chrysochloros), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg and M. A. Bridwell, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bkttro4.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Atlantic Black-throated Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Atlantic_Black-throated_Trogon
External Links
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