Golden-headed Quetzal (Pharomachrus auriceps) [XC273889]
by Peter Boesman from PN Tatam\u00e1, Montezuma trail near Pueblo Rico , Risaralda, Colombia (call)
Golden-headed Quetzal (Pharomachrus auriceps) [XC238829]
by Joe Klaiber from Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Pavonine Quetzal (Pharomachrus pavoninus), and the two may be conspecific. White-tipped Quetzal (Pharomachrus fulgidus) possibly belongs to the same superspecies. Birds from north-eastern Colombia currently placed in nominate subspecies, but sometimes included in hargitti. The population of western Ecuador described as subspecies heliactin, but apparently inseparable from nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
auriceps (Gould, 1842) - Eastern Panama (Cerro Pirre), and Andes from Colombia south to eastern Peru and northern Bolivia.