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Photo by Pitter
Dapa, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, December, 2012

Photo by Robert_Scanlon
Nr Cali, Colombia, May 2004

Alternative names: Highland Motmot or Equatorial Motmot

Identification

There has been a recent split of a species known as Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) into six species:

Blue-capped Motmot (M. coeruliceps) -- from Mexico
Lesson's Motmot (M. lessoni) -- from southern Mexico to western Panama
Whooping Motmot (M. subrufescens) -- from around the Canal zone in Panama to northern Colombia and northern Venezuela as well as lowland western Ecuador, and Peru
Trinidad Motmot (M. bahamensis) -- Trinidad and Tobago
Amazonian Motmot (M. momota) -- Amazonian lowlands from Colombia, to The Guianas and south to Bolivia and Argentina
Andean Motmot (M. aequatorialis) -- Highlands in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

There are two subspecies^[1]:

Secondary growth Andean forest.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Andean Motmot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Andean_Motmot

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 '''Alternative names: Highland Motmot or Equatorial Motmot'''