Blue-crowned Trogon Trogon curucui


Brazilian name: surucuá-de-barriga-vermelha

Male Blue-crowned Trogon, Sauípe, Bahia, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image Brazil and Peru

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. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. 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 3 and 4 has a red belly, white across the chest and a grey breast. The bill is blackish above and grey below. This is at odds with some illustrations such as HBW and Ridgely & Greenfield which show a yellow bill though Birds of Northern South America and Schulenberg's Birds of Peru show the same bill colours as seen here. Check also the photo gallery at Wikiaves.

There is a broken white eye-ring on the female while you can also see the white barring on the wings. The black undertail has white edges with black notches.

Female Blue-crowned Trogon, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image
Female Blue-crowned Trogon, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image
Blue-crowned Trogon, Quebrada Upaquihua, San Martin, Peru, October 2018 - click for larger image
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