World Species : Trogon melanocephalus (Black-headed Trogon)

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Trogon melanocephalus (Black-headed Trogon)

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Synonyms: Trogon melanocephalus illaetabilis; Trogon melanocephalus melanocephalus

Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-headed trogon (Trogon melanocephalus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 7.2167

EDGE Score: 2.10617

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	85 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[3]	50 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	50 %
Forages - Canopy ^[3]	10 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	70 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	20 %

Clutch Size ^[5]	3
Incubation ^[4]	19 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Belizean pine forests	Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests	Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Miskito pine forests	Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Pantanos de Centla	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Name	Location	IBA Criteria	Website	Climate	Land Use
Guanacaste lowlands	Costa Rica	A1, A3
Nicoya Peninsula	Costa Rica	A1, A3, A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	Yes

Prey / Diet

Ficus cotinifolia

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Johnsgard, PA 2000. Trogons and Quetzals of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
♦ ²Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ ³Hamish 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ ⁶"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

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