Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

COPPERY-TAILED TROGAN—Family Trogonidæ.

389. Trogon ambiguus. 12 inches.

This is the only member of this family of beautiful birds that reaches our borders. They nest in cavities of trees, usually in Woodpecker holes. Three or four white eggs (1.10 × .85).