Key Identification Features
- All trogons have distinctively different male and female plumage, with soft, often colorful feathers.
- Like most trogons, the Amazonian black-throated trogon has distinctively different plumage for males and females, with soft, colorful feathers.
- Like most trogons, the Amazonian black-throated trogon (Trogon rufus chrysochloros Pelzeln, 1856) has distinctive male and female plumage made up of soft, colorful feathers.
- Females of this species resemble males, but have a grey back, head, and breast, and distinct black-and-white barring that is mainly found on the outer webs of each tail feather.
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