Southern Surucua Trogon Trogon surrucura

Brazilian name:
surucuá-variado
Male Surucua Trogon, Parque do Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image Parque do Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil
November 2006

The Southern Surucua Trogon is distributed in east-central and south-east Brazil and into adjacent areas of Paraguay and Argentina. It is found in the mid-storey of forest and woodland where it feeds mainly on insects but also some small fruits.

While the HBW and Birdlife International Checklist treat this as a separate species many authorities lump it with Northern Surucua Trogon S. aurantius. In such treatment there are two distinct sub-species. These photos show the nominate sub-species T. s. surrucura where the male in photo 1 has an orange ring around the eye, black to dark blue head, neck and breast, pinkish-red belly and all white undertail. The female in photo 2 has a pinkish-red lower belly but is otherwise grey with a black tail with white edging.
Female Surucua Trogon, Parque do Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image

The sub-species T. s. aurantius is found from the north of São Paulo state northwards and the male has an orange belly and yellow eye-ring.

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

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