Turquoise-browed Motmot
Eumomota superciliosa
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-12 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Tropical dry forest
- Range
- Central America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Uncommon
About
The Turquoise-browed Motmot is the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua, instantly recognisable by its vivid turquoise eyebrow stripe and the two elongated central tail feathers it swings pendulum-like to signal awareness of a predator.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Momotidae
- Genus
- Eumomota
- Species
- Eumomota superciliosa