Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena)

Other Names (World)
Slaty-tailed Trogon, Massena Trogon, Chapman's Trogon (australis)

Family
Trogonidae (Trogons)

Size
30 - 33 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1838

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena) [XC356866]
by Kent Livezey from Torti, San Francisco Nature Reserve, Panama, Panama (song)

Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena) [XC271657]
by Peter Boesman from Pipeline road, Panama (song)

Subspecies
Perhaps most closely related to Black-tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus), Lattice-tailed Trogon (Trogon clathratus) and Choco Trogon (Trogon comptus). Subspecies australis sometimes placed with Black-tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus). Alternatively, when subspecies macroura of Black-tailed Trogon (Trogon melanurus) is treated as full �species, australis is sometimes considered a subspecies of that. Subspecies hoffmanni intergrades with nominate in north and with australis in south. This subspecies is not well defined and possibly invalid.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

massena Gould, 1838 - Caribbean slope of south-eastern Mexico (eastern from Veracruz), Belize, northern Guatemala, northern Honduras, and both slopes in Nicaragua.
hoffmanni (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) - Costa Rica (not dry north-west) and Panama.
australis (Chapman, 1915) - Western Colombia and north-western Ecuador.

References
See References.

Files:

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