Lattice-tailed Trogon

Here and generally, we only know the Lattice-tailed Shrike, but there is also the Lattice-tailed Trogon (Trogon clathratus) whose literal Latin translation could be "latticed", referring to its tail with very fine stripes. The Anglophones call it the Lattice-tailed Trogon or the Trellised-tailed Trogon. It has the average size of Trogons, 28 cm and pronounced dimorphism. The Lattice-tailed Trogon has a striking feature: its white iris surrounded by a black pupil that will help differentiate it from its close cousins, the Massena Trogon and the Black-tailed Trogon that have overlapping distributions. The beak is yellow surrounded by black bristles, grayish-black parotic regions in contrast to the emerald-green crown, mantle, back and scapulars; the coverts and secondary remiges show horizontally wavy black and white; the tertiary remiges are black with white margins. The chest is of the same emerald-green of the back, sometimes with a tendency to darken in the light, while the belly and lower belly are bright red leading to the lower rectrices that are black striped with very thin white lines, the distinctive element of the Lattice-tailed Trogon. The superior rectrices are blue-green with a slightly electric hue. On the female all is different, the parotics are more sooty-black than black, the culmen black and the lower mandible still yellow (the female of Massena Trogon has an orange-red beak), the crown, mantle and back are gray, the top of the chest also gray to slowly transition to a light brown, the belly is red but duller than the male. The coverts do not show the same contrast as the male, but rather thin wavy lines on a grayish dark brown background.The tail is identical, maybe a little less striped on the central lower retrices. The tarses are light brown. Juveniles are closer to their mother, with a light brown dominant instead of the adult female's gray, the belly and chest have a more reddish hue, the cover markings start to show horizontal waves but on a brown background. The Lattice-tailed Trogon, depending on the lighting conditions and its attitude, can be mistaken for Massena's Trogon, Black-tailed Trogon and White-eyed Trogon.