Mountain Trogon
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| Mountain Trogon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Trogoniformes |
| Family: | Trogonidae |
| Genus: | Trogon |
| Species: | T. mexicanus |
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| Trogon mexicanus Swainson, 1827 | |
The Mountain Trogon (Trogon mexicanus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. It breeds in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. In El Salvador, it is only present as a vagrant: its only local breeding population is in the Cordillera Nahuaterique, which was ceded to Honduras in 1992 (see also Football War).[2]
Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist montane forests. It prefers pine-evergreen and pine-oak woodland between 1,200 and 3,500 meters above sea level, occasionally lower,[3] or between 4,000 feet and 10,000 feet.[4] Unlike some rarer trogons, this species shows some adapability to human land use and has utilized coffee plantations with suitable shade trees like oaks.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Trogon mexicanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Herrera et al. (2006)
- ↑ Howell & Webb (1995)
- ↑ Peterson & Chalif (1973). But Herrera et al. (2006) give a lower altitude range, citing Monroe 1968
References
- Herrera, Néstor; Rivera, Roberto; Ibarra Portillo, Ricardo & Rodríguez, Wilfredo (2006): Nuevos registros para la avifauna de El Salvador. ["New records for the avifauna of El Salvador"]. Boletín de la Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología 16(2): 1-19. [Spanish with English abstract] PDF fulltext
- Howell, Steven N. G. & Webb, Sophie (1995): A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. ISBN 0-19-854012-4
- Monroe, B. L. (1968). A distributional survey of the birds of Honduras. Ornithological Monographs 36: 1–458
- Peterson, Roger Tory & Chalif, Edward L. (1973): A Field Guide to Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Houghton Mifflin, New York. ISBN 0-395-97514-X
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