Blue-crowned motmot
- Description
- Motmots make their nests at the end of tunnels which are up to about 4m in length. These burrows are dug in to the soft mud of banks during the rainy season.
- Accession Loan No.
- 14/1960/49
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Common Name
- blue-crowned motmot
- Simple Name
- bird
- Full Name
- MOMOTIDAE: Momotus momota (Linnaeus): blue-crowned motmot
- Family Group
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collection Continent
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Family
- MOMOTIDAE
- Genus
- Momotus
- Species
- momota
