Lattice-tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus Scientific name definitions

The Lattice-tailed Trogon occurs from western Panama to northern Costa Rica and inhabits the lower slopes and foothills of the Caribbean slope, with some movement into the lowlands after breeding and later in the wet season.  It's generally confined to heavily wooded tropical evergreen forest though it occasionally visits forest edge and more open forest.  Though relatively rare in Panama, it is fairly common in Costa Rica.   Identified by its yellow bill, iridescent green head, chest, back and upper tail-coverts, red breast and belly, black and white vermiculated wing-coverts and secondaries as well as it's under tail which is black, finely barred with white giving it a "lattice" appearance.

30 cm; 130 g. Male has yellow bill and whitish iris; face and throat blackish; crown, nape, upperparts and breast green, belly to undertail-coverts rosy-red; vermiculated wingpanel; uppertail bluish-green, undertail looks slaty with well-spaced thin white bars. Differs from very similar T. massena in bill and eye colours, rosier belly, bluer tail, undertail pattern. Female has dark upper mandible, slaty crown and upperparts, olive-slate breast; differs from T. massena in breast colour, rosier belly, yellow lower mandible, undertail barring is nearly restricted to outer webs, distinct white tips to feathers of undertail. Immature like respective adult, but rectrices more pointed and more coarsely barred, breast of male largely brown.

Caribbean slope from Costa Rica to W Panama, where locally also on Pacific slope.

A rapid series of c.15 loud, resonant clucking “kwa” notes rising in pitch and volume to a crescendo in middle, then becoming faster, lower and softer; clearer, higher-pitched, less nasal and more patterned than T. massena.