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Family: Trogonidae
Orange-bellied Trogon, more... (es: Trogón Ventrianaranjado)
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: This Trogon species will favor habitats such as humid forests and forest borders, in foothills and highlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from Costa Rica to central Panama. Natural History Notes: The Orange-bellied Trogon are among the most beautiful birds in the world. This bird does not perch as high as other trogons, but still has a resonant call so you will probably hear it rather than seeing it. Its diet mainly consists of fruits and insects, mostly catched while flying. The nest is usually built in a tree cavity or in a hole dug. 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 reddish-orange 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, but the lower underparts is still reddish-orange. 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. |