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Location: Serra da Aratanha, Ceará State, Brazil

Trogon curucui

[edit] Identification

Male - black face and throat, green-blue crown, neck, breast and uppertail, black, finely vermiculated wings, pale grey horn bill. Female - red belly, white chest, grey breast, black upper mandible, grey below, broken white eye ring, white barred wings, black, white edged and black notched undertail.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and northeast Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 4 subspecies.

[edit] Habitat

Forest and scrub.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes insects and small fruit.

[edit] External Links

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