Red-Headed Trogon

The red-headed trogon is about 34cm long. The male has a red head and breast, a feature unique among its trogons, and a narrow white band across the mid-breast, with the lower breast to abdomen light red to pink. The female resembles Diard's trogon without a speckled undertail. It is fairly common in north-east India, frequent in Bhutan and locally dispersed in Bangladesh (Wikipedia, general species account).

It prefers upland forests and lives in dense broadleaved forests in tropical and subtropical zones in the Himalayan foothills; in South-east Asia it frequents broadleaved evergreen forest from 300 to 2,600m. It is often seen perching on shaded branches waiting for prey, alone or in pairs, and sometimes follows foraging bird flocks to take the insects they flush. In most regions it is sedentary (Wikipedia, general species account).