Orange-breasted Trogon (species: Harpactes oreskios) in Birds of Laos (Gaia Guide)
Harpactes oreskios
Orange-breasted Trogon


©Hiyashi Haka: Orange-breasted Trogon (Harpactes oreskios)
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Trogoniformes
Family Trogonidae
Genus Harpactes
Species Harpactes oreskios

Distinguishing features

They generally have an olive-yellow head with feathers that are bristled and upright, chestnut upperparts, orange breast that changes to bright yellow on upper and lower portions, white bars on wing sections, and a blue bill.

Males have a dull olive-yellowish head with a blue ring; rufous (reddish brown) upperparts and upper tail with paler rump (lower part of back); broad white bars on wing sections; and yellow (grey-based) upper breast with some white along the mid-line.

Females have additional grey-brown on head and upperparts; pale buffy-brown rump, grey breast; and yellow lower underparts.

Juveniles are similar to females, with young males having warmer brown upperparts. (Wikipedia)

Size

  • Up to 29 cm (Length of specimen)

Wingspan

  • Wingspan data is not yet available.

Synonyms

Distribution and habitat preferences

It is found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, humid, lower-to-middle elevation evergreen forests, swampy forests, open dry forests, bamboo forests, thin tree jungles, and sometimes among clumps of trees near forests. (Wikipedia)

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