Small Beauty: Scarlet-rumped Trogon

Posted by Carly Brooke | Jul 14, 2011 | bird, colorful, Harpactes duvaucelii, Scarlet-rumped Trogon | 0 |

Scarlet-rumped Trogon, Harpactes duvaucelii

image credit: BORNEO NATURE PIX

image credit: Georgina Chin – The Accidental Photographer

image credit: dragon_pang

Habitat: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand
Status: Near Threatened

Here’s just a little bit of “bird candy” if you will: the Scarlet-rumped Trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii).

It’s the smallest of the trogons and also the most common. Not too much crazy info on this one, I just thought it was a beautiful feathered friend 🙂

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