The Slaty-tailed Trogon is a forest bird with different plumage in males and females. In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly, while the female is mostly dark gray.
In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly; the female has mostly dark gray plumage.
It forages at different levels of humid forest and eats insects, caterpillars, and ripe fruit. In the Costa Rican account, the male and female excavate a nest in a termite mound.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.