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Photo by John Keep
Location: Peru

Trogon melanurus

Alternative Name Ecuadorian Trogon (see Taxonomy Section):

[edit] Identification

Male

• Yellow bill
• Orange-red eye-ring
• Thin white chest band between dark green breast and red belly
• Slaty grey undertail
  

Female

• Grey above and below
• Red lower belly
• Virtually no eye-ring
• Grey on upper mandible (nominate subspecies only)

[edit] Distribution

Panama, n Colombia, nw Venezuela, w Ecuador, nw Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

In 2008, the South American Classification Committee voted to split this species: Citation

• Trogon melanurus - Black-tailed Trogon
• Trogon mesurus - Ecuadorian Trogon

However, this split has not yet been manifested in Clements^[1], the Opus standard for species and naming.

[edit] Habitat

Canopy and sub-canopy of forest and forest edges.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fruits.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

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