Coppery-tailed Trogon

Trogon ambiguus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreWoodlandCavity nestMedium · 71 g

When to see the Coppery-tailed Trogon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Coppery-tailed Trogon

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Colombia.

About the Coppery-tailed Trogon

The coppery-tailed trogon is a bird in the family Trogonidae formerly considered conspecific with the elegant trogon. It is found in south-eastern Arizona, extreme south-western New Mexico and much of Mexico either side of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

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Easily confused with

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