Identifying Costa Rican TROGONS | Part II: Red-bellied Trogons
Channel: Jabiru Stories
Date: 23/03/2024

Trogons! More fun than flyatchers? Quite possibly. In this video, we'll learn how identify the six red-bellied trogons in Costa Rica.

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⏰ Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:50 Elegant Trogon
1:26 Collared Trogon
2:33 Baird's Trogon
3:09 Lattice-tailed Trogon
3:48 Slaty-tailed Trogon
4:27 Resplendent Quetzal
4:40 Summary & Outro

Trogons are colorful birds that are usually quite easy to spot as they sit calmly for long periods of time on branches in forests and gardens. There are 9 species of trogons in Costa Rica, and while one of them, the Resplendent Quetzal, is pretty much unmistakable, unfamiliar observers might struggle to distinguish between some of the other similarly plumaged species. Case in point: I stumbled across quite a few misidentifications on my image search online. But, fear not: Trogon Identification is actually quite simple! There are a few features to pay attention to and a few field marks to learn, but watch this video and you'll be an expert in Trogon Identification in no time!

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📝 Attributions:

These ID videos wouldn't be possible without the kind people sharing their work online under creative commons licences. So a big THANK YOU to them!

Bairds Trogon:
Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tom Murray, CC CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED, via Flickr
Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0 DEED, via Flickr
Audio: Johan Chaves, XC805763. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/805763.

Elegant Trogon: 
dominic sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
Audio: Scott Crabtree, XC575822. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/575822.

Collared Trogon: 
Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Melissa McMasters, CC BY 2.0 DEED, via Flickr
Orange-bellied: Serena Tang, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr
Audio: GABRIEL LEITE, XC490028. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/490028.

Lattice-tailed Trogon: 
Matt MacGillivray from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Female: Michael Woodruff, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Audio: Jerome Fischer, XC354457. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/354457.

Slaty-tailed Trogon: 
Francesco Veronesi from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tom Murray, CC CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED, via Flickr
Audio: Daniel Lane, XC28436. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/28436.

Resplendent Quetzal: 
Francesco Veronesi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons