Green-backed Trogon
Trogon viridis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,463
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The green-backed trogon (Trogon viridis), 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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Green-backed trogon”.