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| - | [[Image:TB_motmot.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Gary+Clark|Gary Clark}}<br />Location: Uxmal, [[Yucatán]], [[Mexico]].]] | + | [[Image:13741Turquoise-browed-Motmot-ine.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by steenl<br />Photo taken: Celestun - [[Yucatán]], [[Mexico]].]] |
| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| | 34 cm. Green body, rufous back and belly, bright blue stripe above the eye, blue-bordered black patch on the throat, blue flight feathers and upperside of the tail. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets. | | 34 cm. Green body, rufous back and belly, bright blue stripe above the eye, blue-bordered black patch on the throat, blue flight feathers and upperside of the tail. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets. |
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- Eumomota superciliosa
[edit] Identification
34 cm. Green body, rufous back and belly, bright blue stripe above the eye, blue-bordered black patch on the throat, blue flight feathers and upperside of the tail. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets.
[edit] Distribution
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
[edit] Taxonomy
There are seven subspecies recognized for this species: bipartita, superciliosa, vanrossemi, sylvestris, apiaster, euroaustris, and australis.
[edit] Habitat
Forest edge, gallery forest and scrubland.
[edit] Behaviour
The diet includes insects and small reptiles.
It makes a long tunnel nest in an earth bank or sometimes in a quarry or fresh-water well and 3-6 white eggs are laid.
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
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