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Turquoise-browed Motmot (Bobo, pájaro bobo, momoto cejiceleste)

Eumomota superciliosa

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Description:

...Also called Torogoz by the inhabitants of El Salvador, Guardabarranco in Nicaragua, and the Toh in the Yucatán Peninsula...

More data @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumomota_superciliosa

and

http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=…

Habitat:

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.

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PublishedApril 6, 2014

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