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What the Green-backed Trogon sounds like
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This relatively large trogon is 28 to 30 centimetres (11 to 12 in) long. As most trogons, it is strongly sexually dimorphic. In the male the head and upper breast are dark blue (appears blackish in poor light), and the back is green. The lower underparts are orange yellow. The wings are black, vermiculated with white. The undertail is black and white: Each feather has a broad black base and a broad white tip and outer edge. The complete eye-ring is pale bluish.
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When to see the Green-backed Trogon
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Green-backed Trogon
The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Green-backed Trogon
The green-backed trogon, also known as the Amazonian white-tailed trogon, is a bird in the trogon family Trogonidae. It is widely distributed across the Amazon rainforest with a disjunct population on the southeast coast of Brazil. As with all trogons, this species is sexually dimorphic. The male has a yellow belly without a white breastband, a blue head with a pale-blue orbital eye-ring, a blue bill, a green back and a green tail that is mostly white below. The female is duller with a dark grey head, a dark grey back and some black barring beneath the tail.
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Easily confused with
Amazonian Black-throated TrogonTrogon rufusLike most trogons, the Amazonian black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers.
Elegant TrogonTrogon elegansThis species is a medium-sized bird, measuring 28–30 centimetres (11–12 in) long and weighing 60–78 grams (2.1–2.8 oz) (average 68 grams (2.4 oz)).
Surucua TrogonTrogon surrucuraThe nominate subspecies T. s. surrucura is 26 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in) long and weighs 56.3 to 78 g (2.0 to 2.8 oz).
Side by side: Green-backed Trogon vs Slaty-tailed Trogon · Amazonian Black-throated Trogon vs Green-backed Trogon · Elegant Trogon vs Green-backed Trogon · Green-backed Trogon vs Surucua Trogon
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