Tag Archive for 'Trogon'

Reconstruction of the living bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum) in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum.

Trogons Once Had Ordinary Feet, 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows

Sep 25, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Trogons — a group of colorful, medium-sized birds that live in tropical and subtropical forests around the world — are recognizable by an odd...

Eocene-Period Trogon Already Had Heterodactyl Feet

May 8, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Trogons (Trogoniformes) are the only group of birds with a heterodactyl foot, in which the second toe is permanently reversed. Reconstruction of the living...

The black-throated trogon (Trogon rufus). Image credit: Moisés Silva Lima / CC BY 2.0.

New Species of Bird Discovered in Brazil

Apr 6, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A team of ornithologists from the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Paraguay has described a new species of trogon from the Atlantic Forest of north-eastern...