Black-throated Trogon - BirdForum Opus

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

Trogon rufus

Identification

Female, subspeceis tenellus
Photo by rdavis
Carara National Park, Costa Rica, December 2015

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

Subspecies

Male, Subspecies tenellus
Photo by Stanley Jones
Bosque del Río Tigre Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, February 2015

There are 6 subspecies^[1]:

• T. r. tenellus:

• Tropical south-eastern Honduras to extreme north-western Colombia

• T. r. cupreicauda:

• Tropical western Colombia and western Ecuador

• T. r. rufus:

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

• T. r. sulphureus:

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

• T. r. amazonicus:

• Southern Venezuela and north-eastern Brazil

• T. r. chrysochloros:

• Southern Brazil to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

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) Black-throated Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-throated_Trogon

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