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Photo by costaricanbirdwatcher
Carara National Park , Costa Rica

Identification

25–28 cm
Male

Central America: found on the Pacific slope of south-western Costa Rica and western Panama

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Favours the canopy of secondary forests and riparian tropical rainforest at ca. 2 m (6.6 ft) elevation. Occasionally seen at forest edges.

Female
Photo by Stanley Jones
Río Guanábana, south of Puerto Armuelies on the Burica Peninsula, Chiriqui Province, Panama, May 2012

Their main diet consists of fruit and insects, including hairy caterpillars.

Call: a series of rising and falling barking notes.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
Wikipedia

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Baird's Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Baird%27s_Trogon

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 *Bright red mid-breast to undertail-[[Topography#General Anatomy|coverts]]
 ==Distribution==
-[[South America]]: found on the Pacific slope of south-western [[Costa Rica]] and western [[Panama]]
+[[Central America]]: found on the Pacific slope of south-western [[Costa Rica]] and western [[Panama]]
 ==Taxonomy==
 This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.