Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Trogoniformes > Trogonidae > Priotelus > Priotelus temnurusPriotelus temnurus (Cuban Trogon)The Cuban trogon or tocororo (Priotelus temnurus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. It is endemic to Cuba, where it is also the national bird. Its natural habitats are dry forests, moist forests, and heavily degraded former forest. The Cuban trogon has multiple names it can go by. In English speaking countries it is commonly known as the Cuban trogon, while in Spanish speaking countries it is referred to as the tocororo or tocoloro. This local name was derived from its repeated call, toco-toco-tocoro-tocoro. Its scientific name is Priotelus temnurus which is very rarely used in referring to this bird. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 18.9326 EDGE Score: 2.99236 |
Adult Weight [1] | 53 grams | Female Weight [3] | 60 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 70 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 30 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 20 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 80 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Cayo Sabinal, Ballenatos y Manglares de la Bahía de Nuevitas |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i |
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Cayos Romano-Cruz-Megano Grande |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Cienaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Delta del Cauto |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gibara |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gran Piedra: Pico Mogote |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Guanahacabibes |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Río Máximo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Siboney: Juticí |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4iv |
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Sierra del Chorrillo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sierra del Rosario |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Turquino-Bayamesa |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Johnsgard, PA 2000. Trogons and Quetzals of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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