Russet-crowned Motmot (Momotus mexicanus)

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I spent the two weeks in April in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

I hired Alejandro Martinez Rodriguez as a guide for five days. He was excellent and very easy to work with.

This motmot was found at Rancho Primavera just out of El Tuito.

The Russet-crowned Motmot is a beautiful Coraciiform that occurs in both dry and humid forest in Western Mexico.

Like other motmots, Russet-crowned Motmots hunt by sitting and waiting for small invertebrates such as lizards, but will also feed on fruit.

Momotus is a small genus made up of seven species, of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. 

The motmots or Momotidae are a family of birds in the near passerine order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. All extant motmots are restricted to woodland or forest in the Neotropics, and the largest diversity is in Middle America. They have a colourful plumage and a relatively heavy bill. All except the tody motmot have relatively long tails that in some species have a distinctive racket-like tip.

In several species of motmots, the barbs near the ends of the two longest (central) tail feathers are weak and fall off due to abrasion with substrates, or fall off during preening, leaving a length of bare shaft, thus creating the racket shape of the tail. It was  believed that the motmot shaped its tail by plucking part of the feather web to leave the racket. It has been shown that these barbs are weakly attached and fall off due to abrasion with substrates and during routine preening. 

Wikipedia, Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).

Taken on: April 17, 2018

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Camera: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, f/8.0, 1/800 sec, 700mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

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