trogons

On the phylogenetic relationships of trogons (Aves, Trogonidae).

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

On the phylogenetic relationships of trogons (Aves, Trogonidae).

Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

Cave Creek ? or that wonderful lodge where folks go to see trogons ?

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Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He found no barbets, no trogons, no broadbills, no shrikes.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

In such well-known families as the woodpeckers, parrots, trogons, barbets, kingfishers, pigeons, and pheasants, we find some identical species spreading over all India, and as far as Java and Borneo, while a very large proportion are common to Sumatra and the Malay peninsula.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The lovely Eastern trogons, with their rich-brown backs, beautifully pencilled wings, and crimson breasts, were also soon obtained, as well as the large green barbets (Megalaema versicolor) — fruit-eating birds, something like small toucans, with a short, straight bristly bill, and whose head and neck are variegated with patches of the most vivid blue and crimson.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Somewhere in the course of his boat journey eastward, Wallace had passed out of one zoogeographic realm and into another—into a realm where possums replaced monkeys, cockatoos replaced trogons, cassowaries replaced babirusas, and birds of paradise replaced who knows what.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The birds which are most abundant in the Western Islands are woodpeckers, barbets, trogons, fruit-thrushes, and leaf-thrushes; they are seen daily, and form the great ornithological features of the country.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

West of the dividing line lived tigers and monkeys, bears and orangutans, barbets and trogons; east of the line were friarbirds and cockatoos, birds of paradise and paradise kingfishers, cuscuses and other marsupials including farther east in New Guinea and tropical Australia the ineffable tree kangaroos, doing their clumsy best to fill niches left vacant by missing monkeys.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004