Trogon (genus)

Taxobox
name = Trogon

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image_width = 150 px
image_caption = Elegant Trogon
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Trogoniformes
familia = Trogonidae
genus = "Trogon"
genus_authority = 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.citation | last = Hilty | first = Steven L. | year = 2003 | title = Birds of Venezuela | publisher = Princeton University Press | pages = 438 | id = ISBN 0-691-09250-8 | url = http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691092508/ | accessdate = 2007-10-07] Their black faces are one distinction from quetzals, and they lack the colorful bare facial skin of their African counterparts, "Apaloderma".citation | last1 = Williamson | first1 = Sheri L. | last2 = Colston | first2 = P. R. | year = 2003 | title = Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds | chapter = Trogons | editor = Christopher Perrins (editor) | pages = 362–363 | publisher = Firefly Books | id = ISBN 1-55297-777-3] Females and young are duller and often hard to identify in the field. Eggs are white or bluish-white, unlike the pale blue eggs of quetzals. See the family account for further details.

pecies

* Black-headed Trogon, "Trogon melanocephalus"
* Citreoline Trogon, "Trogon citreolus"
* White-tailed Trogon, "Trogon viridis"
** Amazonian White-tailed Trogon, "Trogon (v.) viridis"
** Western White-tailed Trogon, "Trogon (viridis) chionurus"
* Baird's Trogon, "Trogon bairdii"
* Violaceous Trogon, "Trogon violaceus"
** Amazonian Violaceous Trogon, "Trogon (v.) violaceus"
** Northern Violaceous Trogon, "Trogon (violaceus) caligatus"
* 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"
** Brazilian Trogon, "Trogon (surrucura) aurantius"
* Blue-crowned Trogon, "Trogon curucui"
* Black-tailed Trogon, "Trogon melanurus"
** Ecuadorian Trogon, "Trogon (melanurus) mesurus"
* Slaty-tailed Trogon, "Trogon massena"
* Lattice-tailed Trogon, "Trogon clathratus"

References