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Family: Trogonidae
Collared Trogon, more... (es: Trogón Collarejo, Trogón De Collar)
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: This Trogon species can be commonly found in forests, forest borders, only in the highlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from eastern Mexico to northern Bolivia and Amazonian and eastern Brazil. Natural History Notes: The Collared Trogon is usually found in pairs at low and middle tree levels. Although it shows brilliant colors, it is fairly hard to observe because it likes to hide in dense foliage. However, you may hear its call composed of slowly repeated sounds like "cow, caow". This bird feeds on fruits and insects caught while flying. Conservation status according to IUCN 2008 Red list: Least Concern (LC). Characteristics: This species has a total length of 25.4 cm (measured from tip of bill to end of tail). This bird has a fairly long straight tail with a square shape at the tip. The male looks beautiful with a yellow bill, a black iris and a brown ring around the eye. The plumage of the male is brilliant green above and on the chest, but with the sides of the head and the throat black colored. Then, the wing-coverts and the secondaries (line of wing feathers closest to the body) a black with many white spots. We can also distinguish a white band that crosses the upper part of the breast and separate the green chest from the red underparts. We can easily see the underside of the tail all black with many white bars and the outer feathers show three white bands at their tip. The female looks similar but the female has a brown plumage above and a red to pinkish coloration on the lower underparts. Also, the bill of the female is blackish on the upper mandible and yellowish on the lower mandible, and there is a broken white ring around the eye. The tail is mostly chestnut colored above and below the outer feathers the coloration is gray with three white band at the tip. |