Whitehead's Trogon inhabits moist mountain forest on Borneo and has strongly different male and female plumage.
The male has a red head and belly, grey chest and glossy chestnut back. The female has a light-brown head and ochre-yellow belly.
It uses moist, dense forest at roughly 900-2,000 m and perches high in the branches. It catches insects from branches, the ground and in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.