Trogons to Barbets
Trogons are generally very colourful arboreal forest birds, with short rounded wings enabling great manoeuvrability amongst the trees. They rarely fly far but spend hours sitting motionless on a favoured perch from where they can spot an insect or lizard on the forest floor. Trogons are also found in tropical parts of Africa (3 sp.) and Asia (12 sp.), but not Australia.
The family includes a bird many consider to be one of the most beautiful in the world: the Resplendent Quetzal of central America.
Photographing them is always a challenge: although motionless they often sit high-up on a branch in a usually gloomy tropical forest. There is often a branch or twig in the way! My first views of the Resplendent Quetzal required a scope to see it well, but we were lucky to find one later at eye-level, in a wild avocado tree on a steep slope in a Costa Rican cloud-forest.
The family includes a bird many consider to be one of the most beautiful in the world: the Resplendent Quetzal of central America.
Photographing them is always a challenge: although motionless they often sit high-up on a branch in a usually gloomy tropical forest. There is often a branch or twig in the way! My first views of the Resplendent Quetzal required a scope to see it well, but we were lucky to find one later at eye-level, in a wild avocado tree on a steep slope in a Costa Rican cloud-forest.
![Black-headed Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_2993_thumb1.jpg)
Black-headed Trogon
![Slaty-tailed Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/64_9_thumb.jpg)
Slaty-tailed Trogon
![Masked Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9289_thumb1.jpg)
Masked Trogon
![Masked Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9285_thumb1.jpg)
Masked Trogon
![Masked Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9297_thumb1.jpg)
Masked Trogon
![Black-headed Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8076_thumb1.jpg)
Black-headed Trogon
![Black-headed Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8085_thumb.jpg)
Black-headed Trogon
![Black-throated Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9405_thumb.jpg)
Black-throated Trogon
![Black-throated Trogon (female)](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9432_thumb.jpg)
Black-throated Trogon (female)
![Black-throated Trogon (female)](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9434_thumb.jpg)
Black-throated Trogon (female)
![Black-throated Trogon](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9436_thumb.jpg)
Black-throated Trogon
![Golden-headed Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/510_thumb.jpg)
Golden-headed Quetzal
![Golden-headed Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_2639_copy_thumb.jpg)
Golden-headed Quetzal
![Resplendent Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_7317_thumb.jpg)
Resplendent Quetzal
![Resplendent Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8759_copy_thumb.jpg)
Resplendent Quetzal
![IMG 8775](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8775_thumb.jpg)
IMG 8775
![Resplendent Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9066_copy_thumb.jpg)
Resplendent Quetzal
![Resplendent Quetzal](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9069_thumb.jpg)
Resplendent Quetzal
![Amazon Kingfisher](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/391_thumb.jpg)
Amazon Kingfisher
![Green Kingfisher](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_2916_thumb.jpg)
Green Kingfisher
![Green Kingfisher](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9474_thumb.jpg)
Green Kingfisher
![Broad-billed Motmot](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_2327_thumb.jpg)
Broad-billed Motmot
![Rufous Motmot](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8228_copy_thumb.jpg)
Rufous Motmot
![Turquoise-browed Motmot](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8635_thumb.jpg)
Turquoise-browed Motmot
![Turquoise-browed Motmot](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8663_thumb.jpg)
Turquoise-browed Motmot
![Black-fronted Nunbird](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9334_1_copy_thumb.jpg)
Black-fronted Nunbird
![Bluish-fronted Jacamar](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/513_3_crop_thumb.jpg)
Bluish-fronted Jacamar
![Gilded Barbet](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_9365_thumb.jpg)
Gilded Barbet
![Toucan Barbet](https://amazon.clikpic.com/andrewll/images/IMG_8041_1_copy_thumb.jpg)