Whooping Motmot Momotus subrufescens
Version: 1.0 — Published April 15, 2011
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Dutch | Caribische Motmot |
English (United States) | Whooping Motmot |
French | Motmot caraïbe |
German | Rötelbauchmotmot |
Japanese | ナキハチクイモドキ |
Norwegian | karamellmotmot |
Polish | piłodziób rdzawobrzuchy |
Russian | Карибский момот |
Serbian | Hučući momot |
Slovak | momot karibský |
Spanish | Momoto Rojizo |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Momoto Gritón |
Spanish (Panama) | Momoto Gritón |
Spanish (Peru) | Relojero Gritón |
Spanish (Spain) | Momoto rojizo |
Spanish (Venezuela) | Pájaro León Garganticanela |
Swedish | rostbukig motmot |
Turkish | Kızılca Motmot |
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Introduction
The Whooping Motmot is the most widespread, familiar motmot of the lowlands of eastern Panama and northwestern South America, where its hooting call is a familiar sound in lowlands forests. Birds often perch on a favored branch, where they cock their long tail back and forth like a clock pendulum and occasionally sally after a flying insect. Like many motmots, the Whooping Motmot has weak subterminal barbs on the central two rectrices. These barbs fall off shortly after the rectrices grow in to leave a distinctive racquet shape to the tail. The Whooping Motmot is similar in many respects to several other allopatric species of motmots in the "Blue-crowned Motmot" complex, all of which formerly were classified as a single, highly variable species.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding