Trogon caligatus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,400 meters (0 to 14,436 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     1.8     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Trogon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. aurantiiventris (Orange-Bellied Trogon) · T. aurantiiventris aurantiiventris (Orange-Bellied Trogon) · T. bairdii (Baird's Trogon) · T. caligatus (Gartered Trogon) · T. chionurus (Western White-Tailed Trogon) · T. citreolus (Citreoline Trogon) · T. citreolus citreolus (Citreoline Trogon) · T. clathratus (Lattice-Tailed Trogon) · T. collaris (Collared Trogon) · T. collaris collaris (Collared Trogon) · T. comptus (Blue-Tailed Trogon) · T. curucui (Blue-Crowned Trogon) · T. curucui curucui (Blue-Crowned Trogon) · T. elegans (Coppery-Tailed Trogon) · T. elegans ambiguus (Elegant Trogon) · T. elegans canescens (Elegant Trogon) · T. elegans elegans (Elegant Trogon) · T. massena (Slaty-Tailed Trogon) · T. massena massena (Slaty-Tailed Trogon) · T. melanocephalus (Black-Headed Trogon) · T. melanocephalus melanocephalus (Black-Headed Trogon) · T. melanurus (Black-Tailed Trogon) · T. melanurus melanurus (Black-Tailed Trogon) · T. mesurus (Ecuadorian Trogon) · T. mexicanus (Mountain Trogon) · T. mexicanus mexicanus (Mountain Trogon) · T. personatus (Masked Trogon) · T. personatus personatus (Masked Trogon) · T. ramonianus (Amazonian Trogon) · T. rufus (Black-Throated Trogon) · T. rufus rufus (Black-Throated Trogon) · T. surrucura (Suruca Trogon) · T. surrucura surrucura (Surucua Trogon) · T. violaceus (Guianan Trogon) · T. violaceus violaceus (Violaceous Trogon) · T. viridis (Amazonian White-Tailed Trogon) · T. viridis viridis (Amazonian White-Tailed Trogon)

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Further Reading

• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 241.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , , , .
• Bird lore. New York City: Macmillan Co., c1899-c1940. url p. 144.
• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. url p. 144.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 10, p. 10, p. 105, p. 784, p. 785, p. 789.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 129, p. 129, p. 392, p. 432, p. 433.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 708.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 276.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Costa Rica, by John Farwell Ferry. 1 1910 Chicago, 1910. url p. 265.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles B. Cory. 13 1919 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1919. url p. 329, p. 330.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 465, p. 467.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 99.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 99.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 363.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 158.
• Collected writings on mammals. [v.p.]1870-1908. url p. 135.
• Contents and index to volume 1 / Charles B. Cory. 1 1917 Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1917. url p. 362.
• Genera insectorum / publiés par P. Wytsman. Bruxelles, L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.]1902-1970. url p. 25.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 132, p. 174, p. 322, p. 374, p. 41, p. 444, p. 489.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum. London: Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1848-1856. url p. 43.
• Natural history, New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897. url .
• Natural history, by R. Lydekker [and others] London, Hutchinson, 1897. url p. 349, p. 768.
• Natural history, by R. Lydekker, W. F. Kirby, B. B. Woodward, R. Kirpatrick, R. I. Pocock, R. Bowdler Sharpe, W. Garstang, F. A. Bather, H. M. Bernard. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897. url p. 349.
• Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. url p. 708.
• Parental care and its evolution in birds. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1952. url p. 223, p. 355.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 206, p. 206.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 65.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 112, p. 19.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 8 1885 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 109, p. 376, p. 387, p. 400, p. 513, p. 584, p. 600.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 329, p. 330.
• Report on the progress and condition of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30. .. / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington: G.P.O., 1907-1951. url p. 144.
• Science. New York, N.Y.: [s.n.]1880- url p. 593.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1968 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 418.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 231, p. 360, p. 69.
• The birds of El Salvador, by Donald R. Dickey and A. J. Van Rossem. 23 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 277, p. 608.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , .
• The birds of North and middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url p. 784, p. 785, p. 789, p. 790.
• The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 url .
• The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , .
• The naturalist in Nicaragua: a narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests; with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms / by Thomas Belt; with map and illustrations. London: Edward Bumpus, 5 & 6 Holborn Bars, E.C., 1888 url p. 122.
• The new natural history, by Richard Lydekker. .. and R. Bowdler Sharpe, H.A. MacPherson, F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, W.R. Ogilvie Grant, C.J. Gahan, F.A. Bather, Edgar A. Smith, R.I. Pocock, M. Bernard, H. Bernard and R. Kirkpatr New York, Merrill and Baker[189-?] url p. 18.
• The new natural history. New York, Merrill, c1901. url p. 1781.
• The published writings of George Newbold Lawrence, 1844-1891 / by L. S. Foster. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1892. url p. 10.
• Transactions of the. .. annual meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Pub. House, 1883-1901. url p. 220.
• University studies of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln. url p. 71.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2010. Trogon caligatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 3, 2012.

Identifiers

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2706391
• IUCN ID: 247356
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4756738

Footnotes

1. Mean = 79.690 meters (261.450 feet), Standard Deviation = 383.320 based on 20,872 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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