Turquoise-browed motmot

Turquoise-Browed Motmot

Eumomota superciliosa Turquoise-browed Motmot in Yucatan

Blue-crowned Motmots

turquoise browed motmot

Are there nine, twelve, thirteen – or maybe even fourteen species of this Neotropical family? Motmots are loved by everyone. But what makes them so appealing? There's certainly something attractively tropical about them – perhaps it's their large size and stolid way of just sitting there, observing

The beautiful Turquoise-browed motmot is the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Turquoise-browed motmot

The Turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa), is a colourful species of motmot of the Momotidae family. It inhabits 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. It is more conspicuous than other motmots, often perching in the open on wires and fences. From these perches it scans for prey, such as insects and…