Diet Įlegant trogons feed on insects and fruit, often taken in flight. It prefers to live in conditions that would favor the presence of pineoak woodlands and local water making it particularly susceptible to disturbance. The elegant trogon is listed as endangered in the state of New Mexico. The trogon will also include some chattering notes. The usual call is a croaking "co-ah co-ah co-ah". She shows a dull white upper belly, and a small white vertical stripe behind the eye. The female has a metallic bronze head, upper breast, back, upper tail and upperwing coverts. The male elegant trogon has a metallic deep green head, upper breast and back, black face and throat, and red-orange lower breast and belly.
Both have a yellow bill, orange-red undertail coverts and lower belly, and a white horizontal breast stripe. The undertail also has large white tips spaced evenly ending in a black terminal band. Both sexes have a white undertail with fine horizontal black barring.
Like other trogons, elegant trogons have distinctive male and female plumages ( sexual dimorphism), with soft feathers. The IUCN Red List follows this taxonomy, but Avibase and Clements do not. ambiguus to be its own species, as Trogon ambiguus, with Trogon elegans sensu stricto being the Central American population. elegans has five recognized subspecies, including the nominate subspecies: īirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World consider T. The elegant trogon ( Trogon elegans), also known as the coppery-tailed trogon, is a near passerine bird in the trogon family.
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