[order] TROGONIFORMES | [family] Trogonidae | [latin] Harpactes oreskios | [authority] Temminck, 1823 | [UK] Orange-breasted Trogon | [FR] Couroucou a poitrine jaune | [DE] Orangebrust-Trogon | [ES] Trogon Pechinaranja | [NL] Groenkoptrogon
Monotypic species
Genus
The trogons are split into three subfamilies, each reflecting one of these splits, Aplodermatinae is the African subfamily and contains a single genus, Apaloderma; Harpactinae is the Asian subfamily and contains two genera, Harpactes and Apalharpactes. Apalharpactes, consisting of two species in the Java and Sumatra, has only recently been accepted as a separate genus from Harpactes. Harpactes is a genus of birds found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China. They are strongly sexually dimorphic, with females generally being duller than males. The two members of the genus Apalharpactes are sometimes included in Harpactes.
Orange-breasted trogons 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.
Listen to the sound of Orange-breasted Trogon
[audio:http://www.planetofbirds.com/MASTER/TROGONIFORMES/Trogonidae/sounds/Orange-breasted Trogon.mp3]
Copyright remark: Most sounds derived from xeno-canto
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Oriental Region : Southeast Asia, Greater Sundas
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes, 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.
Breeds January to June over range, primarily in February and March; nests in hollow stumps, often low to ground; lays one to four eggs, most often two or three. No information on brood rearing.
Fruits and insects including crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, ants, lizards, and various vegetable material. Occasionally feeds on ground or in mixed-species foraging flocks.
Video Orange-breasted Trogon
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6b_l6GRwFM
copyright: Herve Jacob
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Perches on shorter trees in middle and upper canopy, alone and in pairs.
Presumed sedentary, but not well documented
