This Blog contains Wildlife and Bird Photos from Walks, Safaris, Birding Trips and Vacations. Most of the pictures have been taken with my Nikon P900 and P950X cameras. If you click on the label underneath the picture it will link to all of the photos taken for that species. Just click on any image for a large picture.
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Saturday, 10 February 2018
29-11-2016 SINGAPORE - PARADOXICAL KEELED MILLIPEDE (Anoplodesmus saussurii)
10-2-2018 RIO SERPIS GANDIA, VALENCIA - WESTERN CATTLE EGRET (Bubulcus ibis ssp. ibis)
9-2-2018 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - RED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY (Vanessa atalanta)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - ECLECTUS PARROT (MALE) (Eclectus roratus)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - LESSER BIRD OF PARADISE (MALE) (Paradisaea minor)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - GREEN PEAFOWL (Pavo muticus)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - MALAYAN PEACOCK PHEASANT (Polyplectron malacense)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - MOUNTAIN PEACOCK PHEASANT (Polyplectron inopinatum)
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - AFRICAN PIED HORNBILL (Lophoceros fasciatus)
Friday, 9 February 2018
28-11-2016 JURONG, SINGAPORE - BLACK BILLED MAGPIE (Pica hudsonia)
1-12-2015 ANGKOR WAT, CAMBODIA - ALEXANDRINE PARAKEET (Psittacula eupatria)
Thursday, 8 February 2018
25-3-2017 TUIS CARTAGO, COSTA RICA - BLACK THROATED TROGON (MALE) (Trogon rufus)
The northern black-throated trogon (Trogon tenellus), also known as the graceful black-throated trogon, is a bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons and quetzals. It is found from southeastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia.
What is now the northern black-throated trogon was long treated as one of six subspecies of the then "black-throated trogon" (Trogon rufus sensu lato). Starting in 2022, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the International Ornithological Congress, and the Clements taxonomy split the black-throated trogon into four species, one of them being the northern black-throated trogon. In this split Trogon rufus was renamed the Amazonian black-throated trogon. However, as of 2024 the North American Classification Committee of the AOS and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) have not recognized the split, retaining the six-subspecies black-throated trogon.
Like most trogons, the northern black-throated has distinctive male and female plumages with soft colorful feathers. This relatively small species is about 23 to 26 cm (9.1 to 10 in) long and weighs 50 to 59 g (1.8 to 2.1 oz). Adult males have a black face and throat with a pale blue ring of bare skin around their eye. They are metallic green on their crown, back, lesser wing coverts, and rump. Their uppertail coverts are bluish. Their flight feathers, primary coverts, and secondary coverts are various patterns of black and white. The upper side of their central pair of tail feathers is bluish with wide black tips. The next two pairs are similar with the addition of black inner webs. The outermost three pairs have black bases, white tips, and black and white bars between. The underside of their tail has black and white bars and a wide white tip. Their upper breast is metallic green and their lower breast and belly are yellow, sometimes with a thin white band below the upper breast. Adult females have mostly brown upperparts; their crown is darker and their rump and uppertail coverts lighter. Their face is brown with a whitish to pale blue ring of bare skin around their eye. Their primaries are mostly fuscous-black with a narrow white edge on their outer webs. Their secondaries and their greater and median coverts are copper with a dusky tinge. Their lesser wing coverts are black with brown tips. The upper side of their central pair of tail feathers is rufous-brown to chestnut with narrow black tips and a faint cinnamon-buff band between the colors. The next two pairs are black with rufous-brown edges. The outermost three pairs have black bases, white tips, and black and white bars between. The underside of their tail has black and white bars and a wide white tip. Their throat and upper breast are a paler brown than their back with a white band below the upper breast. Their lower breast and belly are yellow. Males have a mostly bright yellow to yellow-green bill; females' bills are highly variable from black with some yellow to dusky yellow with some black. All ages of both sexes have a dark brown iris. Adults' legs and feet are bluish gray; those of nestlings and juveniles can be pinkish.