Red-headed Trogon

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male head, neck and upper breast dark crimson
2. A single narrow white band across the middle of the breast, pale red to pink below
3. Male upper back and back rusty-rufous
4. Male bill cobalt-blue with a black tip

Male, female and young

Female head, neck and upper breast olive-brown, also with a white breast-band; juvenile head, neck and upperparts pale yellowish-brown, underparts pale yellowish-white.

Voice

The male's call resembles that of Eurasian Golden Oriole: usually five or six soft, widely spaced “tyaup” notes, repeated once a minute.

Where and when it's recorded

Red-headed Trogon has been recorded at 243 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 12 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Bukit FraserMalaysia1,019 records
2. Dihing Patkai NP – SoraipungIndia686 records
3. Khao Yai NPThailand568 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandMalaysiaIndiaVietnamChinaCambodiaNepalBhutan

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

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