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Ward's trogon

Harpactes wardi (Kinnear, 1927)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi) is a species in the family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes. Recorded adults weigh 117 g to 119 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi)
Photo: soumyajit nandy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the ward's trogon

Weight
119 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the ward's trogon live?

Not recorded

What is the ward's trogon?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. Its range includes the northeastern parts of the Indian subcontinent stretching eastwards to Southeast Asia. It is found in Bhutan, India, Tibet, and Myanmar. It also has a disjunct population in northern Vietnam, but there are no recent records from there. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the English botanist and explorer Francis Kingdon-Ward.

From the Wikipedia article “Ward's trogon” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ward%27s_trogon&oldid=1357658056), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the ward's trogon endangered?

The ward's trogon is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the ward's trogon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderTrogoniformes
  5. familyTrogonidae
  6. genusHarpactes
  7. SpeciesHarpactes wardi (Kinnear, 1927)

Synonyms Pyrotrogon wardi

Other names and names in other languages (33)
  • نهاسية واردArabic
  • طرغونية واردArabic
  • Ошалгы-якшар пачан Ази трогонMari
  • trogon WardůvCzech
  • trogon růžovoocasýCzech
  • trogon WardWelsh
  • Stor TrogonDanish
  • RosenschwanztrogonGerman
  • rozvosta trogonoEsperanto
  • Trogón de WardSpanish
  • põhja-järanokkEstonian
  • isotrogoniFinnish
  • Trogon de WardFrench
  • veliki trogonCroatian
  • Ward-malájtrogonHungarian
  • Trogone di WardItalian
  • ビルマキヌバネドリJapanese
  • rausvauodegis harpaktasLithuanian
  • sārtastes trogonsLatvian
  • Wards TrogonDutch
  • rosenbryntrogonNorwegian
  • sędzioł assamskiPolish
  • republicano-de-wardPortuguese
  • republicano-do-himalaiaPortuguese
  • Розовохвостый трогонRussian
  • Розовохвостый азиатский трогонRussian
  • dravčík hnedýSlovak
  • wardtrogonSwedish
  • rosentrogonSwedish
  • Ward TrogonuTurkish
  • трогон рожевохвостийUkrainian
  • 紅腹咬鵑Chinese
  • 红腹咬鹃Chinese

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Relatives of the ward's trogon

Other species in the same genus Harpactes.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the ward's trogon?

An adult ward's trogon weighs 119 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the ward's trogon endangered?

The ward's trogon is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the ward's trogon?

The ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi) belongs to the family Trogonidae in the order Trogoniformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/wards-trogon

MLA

“Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/wards-trogon.

BibTeX
@misc{wards_trogon_2026,
  title = {Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wards-trogon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}