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Left photo shows female, right shows male bird
Photo by
Cedric K Pipeline Road,
Panama
- Trogon rufus
[edit] Identification
23-24 cm.
Male
- Green head, upper breast and back
- Black throat and face
- Yellow belly
- White undertail, barred black
- Black and white wing coverts
- Yellow bill
Female
- Brown head, upper breast and back
- Rufous upper tail
- Yellow belly.
[edit] Distribution
Central and South America
Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
[edit] Taxonomy
[edit] Subspecies
There are 6 subspecies[1]:
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[edit] Habitat
Lowland humid neotropical forest, Atlantic slope forest and neotropical mature wet lowlands.
[edit] Behaviour
The diet includes arthropods and fruit.
[edit] Breeding
The nest is an unlined shallow cavity, and 2 white eggs are laid.
[edit] Vocalisation
Call: krrrrrr
Song: cuh cuh cuh cuh
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
[edit] External Links