Trogon (genus)

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Trogon
Elegant Trogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Trogoniformes Family: Trogonidae Genus: Trogon Brisson, 1760

Trogon is a genus of near passerine birds in the trogon family. Its members occur in New World woodlands from southeastern Arizona to Argentina.

They have large eyes, stout hooked bills, short wings, and long, squared-off, strongly graduated tails; black and white tail-feather markings form distinctive patterns on the underside. Males have richly colored metallic plumage, metallic on the upperparts.^[1] Their black faces are one distinction from quetzals,^[1] and they lack the colorful bare facial skin of their African counterparts, Apaloderma.^[2] Females and young are duller and often hard to identify in the field.^[1] Eggs are white or bluish-white, unlike the pale blue eggs of quetzals.^[2] See the family account for further details.

[edit] Species

• Black-headed Trogon, Trogon melanocephalus
• Citreoline Trogon, Trogon citreolus
• White-tailed Trogon, Trogon viridis
• Baird's Trogon, Trogon bairdii
• Violaceous Trogon, Trogon violaceus
• Mountain Trogon, Trogon mexicanus
• White-eyed Trogon, Trogon comptus
• Collared Trogon, Trogon collaris
• Elegant Trogon, Trogon elegans
• Orange-bellied Trogon, Trogon aurantiiventris
• Masked Trogon, Trogon personatus
• Black-throated Trogon or Yellow-bellied Trogon, Trogon rufus
• Surucua Trogon, Trogon surrucura
• Blue-crowned Trogon, Trogon curucui
• Black-tailed Trogon, Trogon melanurus
• Slaty-tailed Trogon, Trogon massena
• Lattice-tailed Trogon, Trogon clathratus

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Hilty, Steven L. (2003), Birds of Venezuela, Princeton University Press, pp. 438, ISBN 0-691-09250-8, <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691092508/>. Retrieved on 7 October 2007 
2. ^ ^{a b} Williamson, Sheri L. & Colston, P. R. (2003), “Trogons”, in Christopher Perrins (editor), Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds, Firefly Books, pp. 362–363, ISBN 1-55297-777-3