The Story
I photographed this Gartered Trogon (Trogon caligatus) in Veracruz, near Hacienda Montecristo outside Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras. It is found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. This trogon is the emblem of the local birding club, the Club de Observación de Aves COAS Copán. It eats more fruit than most other trogons, along with many insects, usually hovering to pick fruit and invertebrates from vegetation.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender for this one, at 1/125 sec, f/16, ISO 1600, +1 EV. Santa Rosa de Copán held its first bird festival in August 2022, organized by COAS Copán, and I was glad to take part as a speaker.
©2024 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Gartered Trogon (Trogon caligatus) belongs to the family Trogonidae (Trogons) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024). IUCN does not yet assess the Gartered Trogon separately; this is the assessment of Violaceous Trogon (Trogon violaceus), which IUCN treats as including it. Source: IUCN Red List
