trogon
IPA: trʌgɑn
noun
- A bird of a species in the family Trogonidae, most of which live in Central and South America, have colorful feathers, and nest in holes in trees.
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Examples of "trogon" in Sentences
- The trogon will also include some chattering notes.
- This is the largest representative of the trogon order.
- The nests of trogons are thought to usually be unlined.
- I can probably GA either Swallow or Trogon by then though.
- The trogons are sometimes placed here as a family Trogonidae.
- The Hispaniolan Trogon has a recognized presence in the region.
- In most trogon species, both sexes help with nest construction.
- Trogon and Procellariiformes are also approaching that quality too.
- The hite tailed Trogon is a near passerine bird in the trogon family.
- Quetzals are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family Trogonidae .
- The thick-forested mountains delivered the call of the trogon, but no sighting.
- The bird fauna here is very rich, 707 species, and includes species such as Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi) (table 2).
- A trogon, its cherry red neck gleaming against a body of emerald green, crawls up the side of a picture frame, followed by a chattering monkey.
- Birders plan their vacations around the northern extent of the trogon (Chiricauhuas) or where to see 47 varieties of hummingbirds (Ramsey Canyon).
- My favorites were the toco toucan, motmot, currasows, Yucatan jay, cinnamon-colored cuckoo, and pileated woodpecker and violaceous trogon (a relative of the resplendent quetzal).
- Other species with an Afromontane distribution include bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum), scarce swift (Schoutedenapus myioptilus), orange thrush (Zoothera gurneyi) and African black swift (Apus barbatus sladeniae).
- Once more, we wound up in a junglelike forest, where the only thing we saw of note was a gorgeous trogon with a luminous green body and a red throat, a bird so rare that it was the first one Stanton had ever seen, though he'd lived all his life in Africa.
- A trogon was the next, a thickly-feathered soft-looking bird, yoke-toed like a cuckoo, and bearing great resemblance in shape to the nightjar of the English woods, but wonderfully different in plumage; for, whereas the latter is of a soft blending of greys and browns, like the wings of some woodland moths, this trogon's back was of a cinnamon brown, and its breast of a light rosy-scarlet blending off into white crossed with fine dark-pencilled stripes.