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Like most trogons, the Choco black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers. This relatively small species is about 25 to 26 cm (9.8 to 10 in) long. Adult males have a black face and throat with a pale blue ring of bare skin around their eye. They are metallic green on their crown, back, lesser wing coverts, and rump. Their uppertail coverts are bluish. Their flight feathers, primary coverts, and secondary coverts are various patterns of black and white. The upper side of their central pair of tail feathers is bluish with wide black tips. Voice: Male trogons' song is "far-carrying and hollow...many more will be heard than seen". (emphasis in original) That of the Choco black-throated trogon is "a slow, regularly spaced series of 4–10, typically 7 nasal, overslurred coo notes". The species' call is a "churr".
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When to see the Choco Black-throated Trogon
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Choco Black-throated Trogon
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Choco Black-throated Trogon
The Choco black-throated trogon, also known as Kerr's black-throated trogon, is a bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons and quetzals. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.
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Easily confused with
Coppery-tailed TrogonTrogon ambiguusThe coppery-tailed trogon is a bird in the family Trogonidae formerly considered conspecific with the elegant trogon.
Graceful Black-throated TrogonTrogon tenellusLike most trogons, the northern black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers.
Atlantic Black-throated TrogonTrogon chrysochlorosLike most trogons, the Atlantic black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers.
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