The
trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The word "trogon" is Greek for "nibbling" and refers to the fact that these birds gnaw holes in trees to make their nests. They feed on insects and fruit, and their broad bills and weak legs reflect their diet and arboreal habits. Although their flight is fast, they are reluctant to fly any distance. Trogons have soft, often colourful, feathers with distinctive male and female plumage.
The majority of trogons are birds of tropical and subtropical forests. They have a cosmopolitan distribution in the worlds wet tropics, being found in the Americas, Africa and Asia. A few species are distributed into the temperate zone, with two species (
Eared Trogon and
Elegant Trogon) reaching the south of the United States.
Genus Apalharpactes
Found : Indonesia
Trogon,_Javan Apalharpactes reinwardtii also
Harpactes reinwardtiiFound: west of Java (Indonesia)
Image by: 1)
Lip_Kee - Java
Trogon,_Sumartran Apalharpactes mackloti also
Harpactes mackloti Found: Sumatra (Indonesia)
Image by: 1)
Jappalang 2)
Doug_Janson 3)
Samuel_Progin
3) Male


Genus Apaloderma
Found : Africa
Trogon,_Bare-cheeked Apaloderma aequatoriale Found: Africa
Image by: 1) Internet Archive Book Images 2)
Nik Borrow

Trogon,_Bar-tailed Apaloderma vittatum Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Steve_Garvie

Trogon,_Narina Apaloderma narina Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Derek_Keats 2)
Alan_Manson 3)
Peter Steward - Kenya
1) Female 2) Male


Genus Euptilotis - 1 species
Found: North America
Trogon,_Eared also
Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus Found: Arizona, Mexico
Image by: 1)
Jerry Oldenettel - Arizona 2)
Brono_Lima 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Alfredo_Garcia


Genus Harpactes
Found: Asia
Trogon,_Cinnamon-rumped Harpactes orrhophaeus Found: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Image by: 1) John_Gould 2)
Ayuwat_Jearwattanakanok 3)
Daniel Koh - Malyasia
2) Female 3) Male


Trogon,_Diard's Harpactes diardii Found:Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Image by: 1)
Nick Athanas - Malaysia 2)
Dick_Knight
1, 2) Mal

Trogon,_Malabar Harpactes fasciatus Found: India, Sri Lanka
Image by: 1) Thimindu_Goonatillake 2)
Cks3976 - Western Gnats of India
1) Female 2) Male

Trogon,_Orange-breasted Harpactes oreskios Found: southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi 2)
Rushen of Thai National Parks 3)
Jason_Thompson michaelandhelencox


Trogon,_Philippine Harpactes ardens Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
John_Gould 2)
Noel_Reynolds

Trogon,_Red-headed Harpactes erythrocephalus Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
JJ Harrison in Thailand 2)
Frank Monnerjahn 3)
Nick_Athanas


Trogon,_Red-naped Harpactes kasumba Found:Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Image by: 1)
John Gould 2)
Naturelly 3)
Yann_Muzika - Malayasia


Trogon,_Scarlet-rumped Harpactes duvaucelii Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand
Image by:
1, 2) Lip_Kee - Malaysia
1) Female 2) Male

Trogon,_Ward's Harpactes wardi Found: Bhutan, India, Tibet, Myanmar, northern Vietnam
Image by: 1)
Jharsha 2)
soumyajit_nandy 3)
Mark_Gurney 4)
Francesco_Veronesi



Trogon,_Whitehead's Harpactes whiteheadi Found: Borneo
Image by: 1)
Marcel_Holyoak
Genus Pharomachrus
Found: Cemtral America and South America
Quetzal,_Crested Pharomachrus antisianus Found: Venezuela to Bolivia
Image by:
1, 2) Jerry Oldenettel - Ecuador 3)
Nick Athanas - Peru
1, 2) Female 3) Male


Quetzal,_Golden-headed Pharomachrus auriceps Found: Venezuela to Bolivia
Image by: 1)
Joao_Quental - Peru 2)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Arley_Vargas
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Quetzal,_Pavonine Pharomachrus pavoninus Found: northwest Brazil and bordering countries
Image by: 1)
daniele_paccaloni 2)
Davide_Giannella 3)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador


Quetzal,_Resplendent Pharomachrus mocinnoFound: Mexico, Central America
Image by: 1, 2, 3)
Nick Athanas - Costa Rica 4)
plexycolor



Quetzal,_White-tipped Pharomachrus fulgidus Found: Columbia, Guyana, Venezuela
Image by:
1, 2,
3)
Nick Athanas - Columbia, Venezuela, Columbia


Genus Priotelus
Found: Caribbean
Trogon,_Cuban Priotelus temnurus Found: Cuba
Image by: 1)
Laura Gooch - Camagüey Province, Cuba
2, 3) Ekaterina_Chernetsova


Trogon,_Hispaniolan Priotelus roseigaster Found: Dominican Republic, Haiti
Image by: 1)
Meyduek 2)
Alfonso_
Lomba 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Juan_Sangiovanni


Genus Trogon
Found: Cemtral America and South America
Trogons have distinctive male and female plumages, with soft, often colourful, feathers.
Trogon,_Amazonian Trogon ramonianus Found: Amazon region of South America
Image by: 1)
Claudio_Timm 2)
Joao_Quental Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Brian_Sullivan
1, 2) Male

Trogon,_Baird's Trogon bairdii Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1)
Francesco_Veronesi - Costa Rica 2)
Reinaldo_Aguilar

Trogon,_Black-headed Trogon melanocephalus Found: Mexico, Central America
Image by: 1)
Stongey - Costa Rica 2)
Nick Athanas - Mexico 3)
Michael_Klotz - Belize 4)
Becky_Matsubara



Trogon,_Black-tailed Trogon melanurus Found: Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Guianas, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 3)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3)
Carlos_Henrique - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Trogon,_Black-throated Trogon rufus Found: Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels -
Soberania National Park, Panama 2, 4) Frank Vassen 3, 6,
7, 8)
Nick Athanas - Brazil, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador 5)
Jerry_Oldenettel -
Costa Rica
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5) Male







Trogon,_Blue-crowned Trogon curucui Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru
Image by: 1)
Nick Athanas 2)
Claudio_Timm 3)
Jairmoreirafotografia 4)
Blake_Matheson
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male


Trogon,_Blue-tailed Trogon comptus Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1, 2)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Michael_Woodruff - Ecuador 4)
Don_Faulkner



Trogon,_Citreline Trogon citreolus Found: western Mexico
Image by: 1)
Nick Athanas 2)
Don_Loarie 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Louis_Imbeau


Trogan,_Collared Trogon collaris Found: South America
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador, Ecuador, Mexico 4)
Dominic Sherony
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Trogon,_Ecuadorian Trogon mesurus Found: mainly western Ecuador; also bordering Peru
Image by: 1)
Nick Athanas 2, 3) Francesco_Veronesi


Trogon,_Elegant Trogon elegans Found: southern Arizona to northern Costa Rica
Image by:
1, 2. 3) Dominic Sherony
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Trogon,_Gartered Trogon caligatus Found: Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela
Image by: 1)
Dominic Sherony - Honduras 2)
Aaron_Maizlish - Panama 3)
Nick Athanas - Mexico


Trogon,_Green-backed Trogon viridis Found: South America
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels 3)
Sandy Cole 4)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador



Trogon,_Guianan Trogon violaceus Found: Brazil and surrounding countries from Guinanas to Bolivia.
Image by: 1)
Frank_Vassen 2)
Mike_and_Chris - Trinidad
1) Female 2) Male

Trogon,_Lattice-tailed Trogon clathratus Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1)
Michael_Woodruff - Costa Rica 2)
Matt_MacGillivray - Costa Rica 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Marek_Stefunko
1) Female 2) Male


Trogon,_Masked Trogon personatus Found: Guyana, Venezuela to Bolivia
Image by:
1, 2, 3)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador, Ecuador, Venezuela 4)
Santiago Bejarano
1) Female 2. 3, 4) Male



Trogon,_Mountain Trogon mexicanus Found:Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Image by: 1)
Alan_Harper - Honduras 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Mexico 3)
Ron_Knight - Mexico
1, 2) Female 3) Male


Trogon,_Orange-bellied Trogon aurantiiventris Found:
Costa Rica, Panama
Image by; 1)
Eric_Gropp - Panama 2)
Vil_Sandi 3)
Charles Davies


Trogon,_Slaty-tailed Trogon massena Found: Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1)
Dominic Sherony - Panama 2)
Michael_Klotz - Panama 3)
John Norton 4)
Vil Sandi
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male



Trogon,_Surucua Trogon surrucura Found: mainly Brazil; also Argentina, Paraguay
Image by: 1)
Dario Sanches - Brazil 2)
Cláudio Timm 3, 4)
Nick Athanas - Brazil
3)
T. s. surrucura 4)
T. s, aurantius
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Trogon,_Violaceous also
Guianan Trogon Trogon violaceus Found: South America
Image by: 1) Image by
Frank Vassen - Costa Rica
2, 3) Dick Daniels -
Soberania National Park, Panama
1) Female
2, 3) Male


Trogon,_White-tailed Trogon chionurus Found: Panama to western Columbia and Ecuador
Image by: 1,
4) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Mdf - Panama 3)
Dick Daniels - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male


