Violaceous Trogon Trogon violaceus

Brazilian name: surucuá-pequeno
Male Violaceous Trogon, Cristalino Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image Brazil

The Violaceous Trogon is distributed in the Amazon Basin with 2 disjunct populations in Central America from Mexico to northern Colombia and north-west Venezuela and in western Ecuador and north-western Peru.
Male Violaceous Trogon, Caxiuanã, Pará, Brazil, November 2005 - click for larger image In the Amazon Basin it is found in the canopy and at forest edges where it feeds on fruit and, to a lesser extent, on insects. These photos were taken from towers at Cristalino Lodge and Caxiuanã.

The male, shown here in photos 1, 2 and 3, has a pale grey greenish bill and a yellow eye-ring. The crown, neck and chest are a shiny violet blue. The belly is yellow and the undertail has even black and white horizontal stripes with white tips to the feathers.
Male Violaceous Trogon, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image The female in photo 4 is grey with a duller yellow belly. It has a white eye-ring broken above and below the eye and thin black and white bars on the wings.

There is are illustrations in HBW, Volume 6, Pages 94 and 113; and in Hilty & Brown, Plate 17.
Female Violaceous Trogon, Caxiuanã, Pará, Brazil, November 2005 - click for larger image There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto.
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