Blue-tailed Trogon
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The name Blue-tailed Trogon can refer to more than one species of bird in the trogon
family:
Trogon
The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The family contains 39 species in eight genera. The fossil record of the trogons dates back 49 million years to the mid-Eocene. They might constitute a member of the basal radiation of...
family:
- Javan TrogonJavan TrogonThe Javan Trogon is a species of bird in the Trogonidae family. The species was once lumped together with the Sumatran Trogon in a single species, the Blue-tailed Trogon, but differences in size, weight and plumage have led to the two being split...
(Apalharpactes reinwardtii) and Sumatran TrogonSumatran TrogonThe Sumatran Trogon is a species of bird in the Trogonidae family. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Javan Trogon under the common name Blue-tailed Trogon....
(Apalharpactes mackloti); formerly considered to be a single species. - Chocó Trogon (Trogon comptus).