Luntur dan quetzal (Trogons & Quetzals)
Masked Trogon
Trogon personatus
- tidak umum
- 35 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Sits motionless in the cloud forest canopy, then snatches insects mid-air. Patient carrier, precise delivery.
- Populasi
- Not quantified; described as common to fairly common across much of its Andean/tepui range with a stable population trend (no numeric global figure published)
- Habitat
- Humid montane and cloud forest (interior and edge), including stunted/elfin forest at higher elevations; typically found in the understory to mid-story, roughly 1,000-3,000 m elevation
- Fakta menarik
- Both sexes excavate their own nest cavity by boring into the soft, rotting wood of a standing dead tree trunk (usually under 10 m up), rather than using a pre-existing hole, and lay a small 2-egg clutch inside.
- Sebaran
- Andes of South America from western Venezuela and Colombia south through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to northwestern Argentina, plus disjunct populations on the tepuis of Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil
- Makanan
- Omnivorous — insects and other arthropods captured by sallying from a perch, plus fruit; regularly joins mixed-species foraging flocks
- Ukuran
- 0,26 m
- Masa hidup
- 3,9 tahun
