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Post by Ariel Matias on Apr 9, 2012 18:36:06 GMT
The Baird's Trogon (Trogon bairdii) is a species of bird in the Trogonidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. (source: wikipedia.org) 400mm, 1/30s, f/5.6, ISO 800 400mm, 1/100s, f/5.6, ISO 800 And here's immature one. Thanks to Steve Pryor for the corrections. ISO 1600, 1/640s
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Post by Ely Teehankee on Apr 9, 2012 23:56:41 GMT
It does require a keen ear and good eye sight to see a Trogon. I am still thinking about the times that we have seen the different kinds of Trogon in different places. They are usually high up almost 90 degrees and sometimes covered with leaves and branches. But to be able to see them almost always is quite remarkable. In the Philippines we have some places that we can see the beautiful Philippine Trogon but there are times that they are also not there. They are such good looking birds and unique in their own way like the colors and barred tail markings that it is such a delight to photograph them. Well done Ariel & Mabuhay.
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Post by steve pryor on Apr 10, 2012 8:45:52 GMT
Hi Ariel, Nice photos. However, I need to make a slight correction on the ID's. The first one is OK - obviously a fully adult male bairdii. The following two photos are, however, also of male birds. There are no females in this set. The last two are immature male birds. They are too highly colored to be females immature or not. The second photo shows shiny blue wing coverts - not good for female of any age. The third is too highly colored both on the black of the head and throat (would be a rather washed out ashy-grey if female, but also on the belly where the red has too great of an extension. I know why you are confused. You are confused by the transverse barring of the ventral rectrices. The immature male birds have this barred pattern. The white comes in as they approach full maturity. Also to notice that the last two birds are losing the bicolored appearance of the female bill - they still have a bit of it, but it is just on the extremity of the bill. Of the last two photos, the third photo seems to be a male that is more immature than that in the second photo.
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Post by Ariel Matias on Apr 10, 2012 21:23:06 GMT
Hi Ariel, Nice photos. However, I need to make a slight correction on the ID's. The first one is OK - obviously a fully adult male bairdii. The following two photos are, however, also of male birds. There are no females in this set. The last two are immature male birds. They are too highly colored to be females immature or not. The second photo shows shiny blue wing coverts - not good for female of any age. The third is too highly colored both on the black of the head and throat (would be a rather washed out ashy-grey if female, but also on the belly where the red has too great of an extension. I know why you are confused. You are confused by the transverse barring of the ventral rectrices. The immature male birds have this barred pattern. The white comes in as they approach full maturity. Also to notice that the last two birds are losing the bicolored appearance of the female bill - they still have a bit of it, but it is just on the extremity of the bill. Of the last two photos, the third photo seems to be a male that is more immature than that in the second photo. Thank you very much, Steve! I really thought that there must be wrong with the ID but I wasn't quite sure. I saw from some websites a picture of a female specie that looked like the one above. I now modified the post. Many thanks for your correction!
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Post by steve pryor on Apr 11, 2012 6:15:23 GMT
Hi Ariel, Nice photos. However, I need to make a slight correction on the ID's. The first one is OK - obviously a fully adult male bairdii. The following two photos are, however, also of male birds. There are no females in this set. The last two are immature male birds. They are too highly colored to be females immature or not. The second photo shows shiny blue wing coverts - not good for female of any age. The third is too highly colored both on the black of the head and throat (would be a rather washed out ashy-grey if female, but also on the belly where the red has too great of an extension. I know why you are confused. You are confused by the transverse barring of the ventral rectrices. The immature male birds have this barred pattern. The white comes in as they approach full maturity. Also to notice that the last two birds are losing the bicolored appearance of the female bill - they still have a bit of it, but it is just on the extremity of the bill. Of the last two photos, the third photo seems to be a male that is more immature than that in the second photo. Thank you very much, Steve! I really thought that there must be wrong with the ID but I wasn't quite sure. I saw from some websites a picture of a female specie that looked like the one above. I now modified the post. Many thanks for your correction! Ariel, Beware web-based ID's. I can't tell you how much time I spend vetting missed ID's before I file the photos away in my DB. Guesstimating, I might think anywhere between 10-15% of all bird photos on the web are missed ID's. The best ID'ers did not get there by mistake, or because they are geniuses - it is a lot of hard work, and it is much better if you have a set method. It is also pretty important to have multiple book sources especially when you have ID's that get down to just two or three possible species. By the way, I knew about the changing barring pattern of young male Trogons because I have made the same mistake (for another neotropical trogon - I think chionurus) and had somebody that actually had seen the birds in the field point it out to me.
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Post by Neil Konrad III on Apr 12, 2012 4:23:45 GMT
Nice! Costa Rica has really beautiful birds.
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Post by Edwin Matias on Apr 12, 2012 9:35:17 GMT
Ariel,
Great Series, it was such a great place to have lots of birds there...
Regards, Edwin
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Post by Ariel Matias on Apr 15, 2012 13:53:30 GMT
Thanks Neil and Edwin. I am just lucky I live here in a paradise
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Post by Ramon Quisumbing on Apr 23, 2012 21:59:47 GMT
What spectacular birds! Good job, Ariel.
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Post by tina mallari on Apr 24, 2012 1:52:40 GMT
Another fantastic set Ariel. Yes, you are truly lucky to live in a bird paradise :-) Looking forward to seeing more of your awesome photos.
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Post by Ariel Matias on Apr 25, 2012 23:06:43 GMT
Thanks Ramon and Tina for your kind comments. Regards.
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