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Turquoise-browed Motmot
Eumomota superciliosa
20.6282, -87.0757
Field Notes
Description:
Photo take in a bicyle side road where I go jogging early mornings this one is always in the same area hard to photograph, common to rare to see. The bird is approximately 34 cm long and weighs about 65 grams. It has a mostly green-blue body with a rufous back and belly. There is a bright blue stripe above the eye and a blue-bordered black patch on the throat. The flight feathers and upperside of the tail are blue. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets and the bare feather shafts are longer than in other motmots.
Habitat:
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 scrubland. It is more conspicuous than other motmots, often perching in the open on wires and fences.
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