Baird's Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Photo by costaricanbirdwatcher
Carara National Park , Costa Rica

Trogon bairdii

Identification

25–28 cm
Male

• Pale blue bill and orbital ring
• Bluish-black head to mid-breast
• Bright red mid-breast to undertail-coverts

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

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

Behaviour

Diet

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

Vocalisation

Call: a series of rising and falling barking notes.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• 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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