Gartered trogon male - Trogon caligatus
About 23 cm long. The head and upper breast of the male are blue and the back is green, becoming bluer on the rump. A faint white line separates the breast from the orange yellow underparts. The undertail is white with black barring, and the wings are black, vermiculated with white. The complete eye-ring is yellow.
Habitat:
Near Cerro Chato
The gartered trogon , also known as the northern violaceous trogon, is a near passerine bird in the trogon family, Trogonidae. It is found in forests in east-central Mexico, south through Central America, to north-western South America . It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the otherwise exclusively South American violaceous trogon .
Similar species: Trogons And Quetzals
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Uploaded Aug 7, 2016. Captured Apr 14, 2014 21:00 in Av 319A, Alajuela, La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
