Atlantic Black-throated Trogon

Like most trogons, the Atlantic black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers. This relatively small species is 24 to 25 cm (9.4 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 49 to 66 g (1.7 to 2.3 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black forehead and face with a pale blue ring of bare skin around their eye. They are metallic green on their crown, back, lesser wing coverts, rump, and uppertail coverts. Their flight feathers, primary coverts, and secondary coverts are various patterns of black and white. Voice: Male trogons' song is "far-carrying and hollow...many more will be heard than seen". (emphasis in original) The song of the nominate subspecies of Atlantic black-throated trogon is "a series of melancholic, monotonous notes delivered in series of four to eleven, but typically six or seven: pau pau pau pau pau pau". That of T. c. muriciensis is slower and has fewer notes.