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Collared trogon

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1034953 ↗
Source-derived summary

The collared trogon (Trogon collaris) is a species of bird in family Trogonidae, the quetzals and trogons. It is found in Mexico, throughout Central America, and in northern South America.

Taxonomy and systematics

The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy recognize these 10 subspecies of collared trogon. They treated T. c. aurantiiventris ("orange-bellied trogon") as a separate species until the late 2010s.

T. c. puella Gould (1846)

T. c. underwoodi Bangs (1908)

T. c. aurantiiventris Gould (1846)

T. c. extimus Griscom (1929)

T. c.

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This entry incorporates text from “Collared trogon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.