Nicaragua and Costa Rica, motmots have been observed feeding on poison dart frogs. Like most of the Coraciiformes, motmots nest in tunnels in banks, laying...
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and the bare feather shafts are longer than in other motmots. Although it is often said that motmots pluck the barbs off their tail to create the racketed...
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Lesson's (M. lessonii), and Amazonian motmots (M. momota) were all at one time considered conspecific. The Andean motmot has two recognized subspecies, the...
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Like most of the Coraciiformes, motmots nest in tunnels in banks, laying about three or four white eggs. The Lesson's motmot has three subspecies: M. l. goldmani...
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motmot and the blue-capped (Momotus coeruleiceps), whooping (M. subrufrescens), Trinidad (M. bahamensis), Lesson's (M. lessonii), and Andean motmots (M...
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russet-crowned motmots only found in central Guatemala and could be considered a separate species. Russet-crowned motmots are relatively small motmots that measure...
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make it easier to feed to young birds. Like most of the Coraciiformes, motmots nest in tunnels in banks, laying about three or four white eggs. The bird...
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is a black eyemask. The call is a low owl-like ooo-doot. Blue-crowned motmots have a body length ranging from 38 to 43 cm (15 to 17 in). These birds...
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some consider to be their own species. They are called the "plain-tailed motmots" and this is because they lack tail racquets. Its range encompasses the...
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motmot's diet includes insects, spiders, and snails. Unlike most other motmots, it has not been recorded to eat fruit. It plucks prey from vegetation...
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colourful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing...
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whooping motmot and the blue-capped (Momotus coeruleiceps), Trinidad (M. bahamensis), Amazonian (M. momota), Lesson's (M. lessonii), and Andean motmots (M....
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rufous motmot's breeding and nesting phenology has few reported details. It is assumed to nest in deep burrows in earthen banks like other motmots. The...
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Motmots are birds in the family Momotidae in the order Coraciiformes. There are currently 14 extant species of motmots recognised by the International...
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It has a long, graduated, tail that in contrast to that of most other motmots does not have racquet tips. The side of the adult's head is ochre with...
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The rufous-capped motmot (Baryphthengus ruficapillus) is a species of bird in the family Momotidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The...
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keel-billed motmot (Electron carinatum) is a species of bird in the motmot family Momotidae. It is very closely related to the broad-billed motmot, and the...
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Mary Ann; Chapman, Angela (1993). "The Diets of Neotropical Trogons, Motmots, Barbets and Toucans". The Condor. 95 (1): 178–92. doi:10.2307/1369399...
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List of largest birds (section Rollers, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, motmots, and todies (Coraciiformes))
The largest extant species of bird measured by mass is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), closely followed by the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...
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Momotus is a small genus of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. They have a colourful plumage...
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family Alcedinidae is in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, todies, rollers, and ground-rollers. The name of the family...
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List of birds of Brazil (section Motmots)
trogon, Trogon personatus Order: Coraciiformes Family: Momotidae The motmots have colorful plumage and long, graduated tails which they display by waggling...
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Palmchat (national bird) Dulus dominicus El Salvador Turquoise-browed motmot (national bird) Eumomota superciliosa Estonia Wolf (national animal) Canis...
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high precipitation levels. Resplendent quetzal, Guatemala Turquoise-browed motmot, El Salvador and Nicaragua Keel-billed toucan, Belize Scarlet macaw, Honduras...
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ground rollers Suborder Alcedines Family Todidae: todies Family Momotidae: motmots Family Alcedinidae: kingfishers Worldwide except Australasia; 400 species...
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including nightjars, trogons, barbets, jacamars, puffbirds, kingfishers, motmots and even some passerine species such as broadbills, cotingas and flowerpeckers...
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are sister to all other Coraciiformes (rollers, ground rollers, todies, motmots and kingfishers). A 2009 book supported Fry's contention, but then a later...
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one of six families in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, todies, ground rollers, and kingfishers. The family gets its...
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Chestnut-headed chachalaca (redirect from Ortalis motmot ruficeps)
variable chachalaca (Ortalis motmot). (Confusingly, after the split the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) renamed O. motmot "little chachalaca" but...
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toucans, and barbets) and Coraciformes (kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, motmots, and todies). This group is now confined to sub-Saharan Africa, and it...
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