Female © Alfonso Escajadillo
Female © Chuck Gates
Male © Diego Rocha Lopez
Male © Shailesh Pinto

Black-tailed Trogon Trogon melanurus

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Identification

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Large trogon with a red belly and stout yellow bill. The female has a gray head and chest, while the male is emerald green with a white band separating the chest from its red belly. Note the plain dark gray undertail. Found in canopy and middle levels of lowland forest, mainly in the Amazon basin of northern South America but also in eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and western Venezuela. The similar Slaty-tailed Trogon has a red bill and males lack the white chest band seen on Black-tailed Trogons. Listen for slow series of low-pitched “coop” calls.

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