Friday, October 9, 2009

Orange-breasted Trogon (Harpactes oreskios)



The Orange-breasted Trogon (Harpactes oreskios) is a species of bird in the Trogonidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes, humid, lower-to-middle elevation evergreen forests, swampy forests, open dry forests, bamboo forests, thin tree jungles, and sometimes among clumps of trees near forests. (Wikipidea)
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000>10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. (BirdLife International, 2009)

3 comments:

Rick (Ratty) said...

This is a very beautiful colorful bird. The green feathers look like coarse fur. It has a huge range for a bird.

rainfield61 said...

Yes, it is a beautiful and cute birdie. Everybody will love to see it.

Rose Ragai said...

Ratty--It was really pretty bird. I was amazed by it's beauty since this was my first encounter of it. To see it up close like this.

Rainfield61--Everbody will love to see it but it is not easy to observed them in wild.