Ecuadorian Trogon - BirdForum Opus

Trogon mesurus

Photo by Stanley Jones
Loja Province, Ecuador, November, 2014

Identification

Male

• Yellow bill
• Orange-red eye-ring around white eye
• 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

Distribution

Western Ecuador and north-western Peru.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
In 2008, the South American Classification Committee voted to split this species from Black-tailed Trogon: Citation

Habitat

Canopy and sub-canopy of humid forest and forest edges.

Behaviour

The diet includes fruits.

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. SACC proposal for splitting Black-tailed Trogon
3. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Ecuadorian Trogon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Ecuadorian_Trogon

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