trogonid

📅 Updated:2018-12-10

🕒 Created:2018-12-10

🆔 ID:22768

Description

Trogonids, members of Trogonidae, are a family of birds.

Trogons have soft, often colourful, feathers with distinctive and heavy sexual dimorphism between male and female Trogonids. They are the only animal with a heterodactyl toe arrangement, which is similar to zygodactyl but with the inner toe reversed. Trogons are fairly uniform in appearance, having compact bodies and long tails, especially quetzals, and short necks. Their legs and feet are weak and short, and they are essentially unable to walk beyond a very occasional shuffle, being incapable of even turning around on a branch without using their wings. They nest in holes dug into trees or termite mounds.