Blue-crowned Trogon Trogon curucui


Brazilian name: surucuá-de-barriga-vermelha

Female Blue-crowned Trogon, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image Brazil

The Blue-crowned Trogon is found in a variety of habitats from eastern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru through the Amazon Basin south of the river Amazon and into northeast Brazil. It is found in a wide variety of habitats from forest to scrub

It eats insects and small fruits and often joins mixed species flocks.

The male has a bill that is pale greyish-horn with a greenish, bluish or yellowish tinge. It also has an orange eye-ring. The face and throat are blackish while the crown neck and breast are a glossy greenish-blue as is the upper tail. The wing panel appears grey though it is actually black with fine white vermiculations.

Female  Blue-crowned Trogon, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image The female, shown in photos 1 and 2, has a red belly, white across the chest and grey breast. The bill is is blackish above and grey below. This is at odds with some illustrations such as HBW and Ridgely & Greenfield which show a yellow bill. There is a broken white eye-ring while you can also see the white barring on the wings. The black undertail has white edges with black notches.

There are illustrations in HBW, Volume 6, Pages 91(male) and 120; Hilty & Brown, Plate 17, and in Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 47.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto .

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