313:. In the male the head and upper breast are dark blue (appears blackish in poor light), and the back is green, becoming bluer on the rump. The lower underparts are orange-yellow. The wings are black, vermiculated with white. The undertail is almost entirely white with only a very narrow black base to each feather. The complete eye-ring is pale bluish. The female white-tailed trogon resembles the male, but has a grey back, head and breast, and rather indistinct black-and-white barring mainly to the inner webs of each tail feather (less on outer webs).
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Recognize Trogon chionurus as a separate species from Trogon viridis.
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The song of the white-tailed trogon consists of 15-20 very fast
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387:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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355:– slightly more so in the
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221:Trogon viridis chionurus
1143:Birds described in 1871
808:Northern Surucua trogon
529:: Trogoniformes ·
777:Black-throated trogon
663:Orange-breasted trogon
648:Cinnamon-rumped trogon
439:Remsen, J. V. (2008).
359:when fruit is scarce.
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891:Golden-headed quetzal
838:Lattice-tailed trogon
768:Orange-bellied trogon
653:Scarlet-rumped trogon
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886:White-tipped quetzal
329:green-backed trogons
24:White-tailed trogon
876:Resplendent quetzal
833:Slaty-tailed trogon
823:Green-backed trogon
818:Black-tailed trogon
813:Blue-crowned trogon
723:White-tailed trogon
713:Black-headed trogon
573:Bare-cheeked trogon
291:green-backed trogon
231:white-tailed trogon
45:Conservation status
693:Hispaniolan trogon
643:Whitehead's trogon
467:Christopher Helm.
423:"Trogon chionurus"
351:, supplemented by
311:sexually dimorphic
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255:, through western
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913:Taxon identifiers
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828:Ecuadorian trogon
753:White-eyed trogon
718:Citreoline trogon
658:Red-headed trogon
638:Philippine trogon
578:Bar-tailed trogon
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1061:Neotropical
1035:iNaturalist
945:Wikispecies
407:13 November
305:Description
191:Sclater, PL
1122:Categories
1100:Xeno-canto
848:Euptilotis
559:Apaloderma
475:(vol. 1).
363:References
357:dry season
353:arthropods
287:T. viridis
285:, leaving
270:T. viridis
265:subspecies
142:Trogonidae
781:Amazonian
679:Priotelus
614:Harpactes
483:(vol. 2).
160:Species:
98:Kingdom:
92:Eukaryota
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936:Q1268064
930:Wikidata
796:Northern
786:Atlantic
257:Colombia
213:Synonyms
138:Family:
112:Chordata
108:Phylum:
102:Animalia
88:Domain:
65:IUCN 3.1
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1066:whttro1
1027:5788448
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988:whttro1
960:Avibase
549:Species
523:Trogons
427:Avibase
342:Ecology
338:notes.
289:as the
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128:Order:
118:Class:
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245:trogon
197:, 1871
195:Salvin
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153:Trogon
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1009:eBird
1001:8VDTR
985:BOW:
791:Choco
541:Genus
527:order
349:fruit
279:Andes
249:Chocó
1048:IUCN
1022:GBIF
505:ISBN
477:ISBN
469:ISBN
409:2021
392:2016
229:The
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