Elegant Trogon
Common
Name: Elegant Trogon (ELTR)
Scientific
Name:
Trogon elegans
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: Not on IUCN 2004 Red List
National-level
Conservation Status: Nothing other than coverage
by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 357 (Kunzmann et al. 1998)
Distribution:
Resident from Sonora, se Arizona, sw New Mexico, Chihuahua,
Durango, Zacatecas, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas south through Mexico to
Guerrero, Veracruz, and Oaxaca; and in s and e Guatemala, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, and nw Costa Rica.
Northernmost populations are mostly migratory (AOU
1998)
Habitat
Associations:
Tropical deciduous forest, pine-oak forest; in
U.S.
primarily sycamore riparian woodland adjacent to pine-oak woodlands (AOU
1998)
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: Arizona
PIF Bird Conservation Plan; BNA No. 357 (Kunzmann et al. 1998); PIF
Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo1
(Essentially no data on population trend); Mo4 (2/3 or more of Western
Hemisphere breeding range is south of
U.S.
(PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – Conduct Mexican Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Conduct border (U.S.-Mexico) bird
surveys (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- High
priority candidate for rapid status assessment (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
Habitat Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Study
ELTR sexual differences in habitat use (
Arizona
)
- More
information on life history including nutrition & energetics,
metabolism & temperature regulation, timing & duration of
molts (BNA)
- Long-term
studies to determine lifetime pair-bond information, lifetime
reproductive success, and sexual differences in habitat use (BNA)
- see
needs under "Wintering"
Effects of Management Practices
- Determine
the effects of management activities on ELTR numbers (
Arizona
; BNA )
Species
Interactions
- Determine
relationships between ELTR and other avian species in southeastern
Arizona (BNA)
Migration
- Develop
information about ELTR migration and other seasonal movements
(especially migration habitat use and migration patterns between
Mexico
and the
US
) (
Arizona
; BNA)
Wintering
- Determine
destination of ELTR migration south from
Arizona
, as well as habitat use patterns in winter (BNA)
Demographics
- Study
pair bond information and lifetime reproductive success in ELTR (
Arizona
)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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