Trogon (genus)

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Trogon
Elegant Trogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Trogoniformes
Family: Trogonidae
Genus: Trogon
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.[1] Their black faces are one distinction from quetzals,[1] and they lack the colorful bare facial skin of their African counterparts, Apaloderma.[2] Females and young are duller and often hard to identify in the field.[1] Eggs are white or bluish-white, unlike the pale blue eggs of quetzals.[2] See the family account for further details.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Hilty, Steven L. (2003), Birds of Venezuela, Princeton University Press, pp. 438, ISBN 0-691-09250-8, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691092508/, retrieved 2007-10-07 
  2. ^ a b Williamson, Sheri L.; Colston, P. R. (2003), "Trogons", in Christopher Perrins (editor), Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds, Firefly Books, pp. 362–363, ISBN 1-55297-777-3 


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