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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]:

• 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

[edit] Habitat

Lowland humid neotropical forest, Atlantic slope forest and neotropical mature wet lowlands.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

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

1. 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
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View movie-file of this species (in Picasa video format) here