Green-backed Trogon
Trogon viridis
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The green-backed trogon, also known as the Amazonian white-tailed trogon, is a bird in the trogon family Trogonidae. It is widely distributed across the Amazon rainforest with a disjunct population on the southeast coast of Brazil. As with all trogons, this species is sexually dimorphic. The male has a yellow belly without a white breastband, a blue head with a pale-blue orbital eye-ring, a blue bill, a green back and a green tail that is mostly white below. The female is duller with a dark grey head, a dark grey back and some black barring beneath the tail.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Trogoniformes
- Family
- Trogonidae
- Genus
- Trogon