Elegant trogon Trogon elegans

Identification Tips:

• Length: 10 inches
• Short, yellow bill
• Black mask and pale eye ring
• Dark green breast, head and upperparts
• White breast band
• Red belly and undertail coverts
• Long tail, barred underneath and squared at tip
• Female duller than male with less red underneath
• United States range restricted to southeastern Arizona

Similar species:

The Elegant Trogon is similar to the rarer Eared Trogon but has a white breast band and a barred undersurface to the tail. Eared Trogon lacks the breast band and has a mostly white undersurface to the tail.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.