ABOUT THIS SPECIES
TURQUOISE-BROWED MOTMOT – (Species Account Weblog #106)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Coraciiformes – kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoes, and hornbills,
- FAMILY: Momotidae – Motmots,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Eumomota superciliosa
The Turquoise-browed Motmot is definitely one of the vital flamboyantly plumaged of a exceptional household, and it’s sufficiently distinctive from different motmots to be afforded its personal genus. Plumage distinctive, with turquoise forehead, turquoise-blue wings and tail with huge rackets. It has a comparatively small vary, within the Yucatán Peninsula of jap Mexico and northernmost Guatemala, and on the Pacific slope of Center America, from southern Mexico south to northwest Costa Rica. (from Birds of the World)
SIMILAR SPECIES
Distinguished from different momotids by exceptionally lengthy naked tail shafts, blue eyebrow, sample of throat and breast.
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Turquois-browed Motmots at three areas across the Punta Leona and Carara NP space..
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by nations.
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