Order: Trogoniformes | Family: Trogonidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Panama
Identification & Behavior: ~23 cm (9 in). Males and females Gartered Trogon have a yellow belly and dark underside of the tail with fine white bars and white tail feather tips. Males have an iridescent blue head and breast, an iridescent green back, and a gray-blue bill. Females are dusky-gray with fine white bars in the underside of the tail. Gartered Trogon is the only yellow-bellied trogon in its range. Also see Amazonian Trogon, which was formerly considered the same species.
Status: The Gartered Trogon is generally rare in the deciduous forest of northwest Peru where it is known to range at elevations below 400 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Trogón de Liguero
Sub-species: Gartered Trogon (Trogon caligatus concinnus) Lawrence, 1862.
Meaning of Name: Trogon: Gr. Trogon= gobble, nibble, chew. caligatus: L. caliga= a stout boot or show. Refer to a smooth unscutelated tarsi of the Gartered Trogon..
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 11/09/2014.