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Like most trogons, the northern black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers. This relatively small species is about 23 to 26 cm (9.1 to 10 in) long and weighs 50 to 59 g (1.8 to 2.1 oz). 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. Voice: The northern black-throated trogon's song is "low, weak, mellow notes delivered in series of two or three, sometimes four, rarely up to six notes: cow cow or cow cow cow". The species' call is a "churr".
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When to see the Graceful Black-throated Trogon
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Graceful Black-throated Trogon
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Colombia.
About the Graceful Black-throated Trogon
The northern black-throated trogon, also known as the graceful black-throated trogon, is a bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons and quetzals. It is found from southeastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia.
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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.
Choco Black-throated TrogonTrogon cupreicaudaLike most trogons, the Choco 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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