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The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is common and not considered threatened. It lives in fairly open habitats such as forest edge, gallery forest and ...
There is also evidence that the male tail, which is slightly larger than the female tail, functions as a sexual signal in the turquoise-browed motmot. In several species of motmots, the barbs near the ends of the two longest (central) tail feathers are weak and fall off due to abrasion with substrates, or fall off during preening, leaving a ...
The International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) recognises 14 species of motmots in six genera. [1] This list does not include hybrid species, extinct prehistoric species, or putative species not yet accepted by the IOU.
List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and a high metabolic rate. Restless flycatcher in the downstroke of flapping flight
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, which is green on the back becoming blue on the flight feathers and the long tails.
Tody motmot, Hylomanes momotula; Blue-throated motmot, Aspatha gularis; Russet-crowned motmot, Momotus mexicanus; Blue-capped motmot, Momotus coeruliceps (E) Lesson's motmot, Momotus lessonii; Keel-billed motmot, Electron carinatum (A) (vulnerable) Turquoise-browed motmot, Eumomota superciliosa
The guardabarranco (turquoise-browed motmot) is Nicaragua's national bird. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nicaragua. The avifauna of Nicaragua included a total of 788 species as of May 2023, according to Bird Checklists of the World. [1] Of them, 142 are rare or accidental and five have been introduced by humans. None are ...
Rufous-capped motmot; Broad-billed motmot; Turquoise-browed motmot; Tody motmot; Highland motmot; Trinidad motmot; Momotus coeruliceps; Blue-diademed motmot; Russet ...