{"id":800,"date":"2007-08-07T21:21:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/08\/07\/blue-crowned-motmots\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T02:57:23","slug":"blue-crowned-motmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/08\/07\/blue-crowned-motmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-crowned Motmots"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Costa Rica, Blue-crowned Motmots (Momotus momota)<\/a> are found throughout most of the Pacific slope in the low to middle elevations and in some areas of the Caribbean slope as well. Blue-crowned Motmots range from northeastern Mexico to Peru and Argentina. These adaptable birds frequent a variety of wooded habitats and can often be seen perched in the shady forest understory.<\/p>\n

\"Immature<\/p>\n

In May of 2007, I observed this immature Blue-crowned Motmot in the forest understory in Alajuela, Costa Rica. I had been making squeaky pishing and kissing sounds in an attempt to attract birds, and this curious Blue-crowned Motmot responded immediately and flew up and perched on a branch just over my head. I could tell that it was an immature because its still short tail feathers lacked the distinctive racket tips of the adults.<\/p>\n

\"Immature<\/p>\n

Blue-crowned Motmots are variably greenish above and ochre below with a distinctive, small, black breast spot, and they have a turquoise-edged crown, red eyes surrounded by a turquoise-edged black mask, a black bill, greenish blue wings, and the adults have a long, racket-tipped tail.<\/p>\n

\"Adult<\/p>\n

This adult Blue-crowned Motmot above was also attracted by my squeaking sounds, but it remained in the treetops and soon returned to its foraging, unlike the much braver immature bird. Blue-crowned Motmots have a varied diet and will happily feed on insects, spiders, small reptiles, and fruit, including bananas at feeders.<\/p>\n

Turquoise-browed Motmots (Eumomota superciliosa)<\/a> look quite similar to Blue-crowned Motmots and are also found in Costa Rica, but they have dark brown eyes, bright rufous behind the eye mask instead of greenish tan, and a large, vertical, turquoise-bordered black throat patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Costa Rica, Blue-crowned Motmots (Momotus momota) are found throughout most of the Pacific slope in the low to middle elevations and in some areas of the Caribbean slope as well. Blue-crowned Motmots range from northeastern Mexico to Peru and Argentina. These adaptable birds frequent a variety of wooded habitats and can often be seen… Read More → <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-costa-rican-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}