Trogon viridis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Marques de Oliveira, Uéslei, Santos do Nascimento, Sheiliane, Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas & Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, 2021, Preliminary survey of avifauna of the Estação Ecológica do Cuniã in Porto Velho, northern Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 289-310 : 299

Trogon viridis (Linnaeus, 1766)

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Records. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Porto Velho, Estação Ecológica de Cuniã ; first record on 11.I.2019; photographic records; plot R17 ; WA3838905; female .

Identification. This species has a mean body length of

28 cm. Males are dark iridescent blue on the head and breast, iridescent green on the back, and have a blue-gray bill and large, white tail tips which gives the impression of having a white underside of the tail. Females are dusky-gray and have a gray-blue bill and a white-barred underside of the tail, with white terminal spots.