Momoto Aullador

Momotus subrufescens

Un momoto grande de bosques de tierras bajas y sus bordes, desde el este de Panamá hasta el noroeste de Sudamérica. Verde por encima y rufo cálido por debajo, con una máscara negra bordeada por un píleo cerúleo deslumbrante. El píleo no es de un azul sólido, sino que tiene un parche negro circular en el medio como si llevara una kipá. Como la mayoría de los otros momotos, tiene raquetas conspicuas en la cola. A la manera típica de los momotos, se posa silenciosamente durante largos periodos de tiempo en cualquier lugar desde el sotobosque hasta el dosel, ocasionalmente moviendo su cola de lado a lado. Emite una llamada baja y única de “whoop”.

Identificación

The whooping motmot's back and wings are olive-green and the underparts dull brown. It has a long, green to blue, tail that has extended feathers with racquet tips that are blue tipped with black. Its crown is black surrounded by a blue band, and it has a black eyemask bordered with turquoise. Twenty-seven specimens of the nominate whooping motmot weighed 75 to 124 g (2.6 to 4.4 oz).

Taxonomía

The whooping motmot and the blue-capped (Momotus coeruleiceps), Trinidad (M. bahamensis), Amazonian (M. momota), Lesson's (M. lessonii), and Andean motmots (M. aequatorialis) were at one time all considered conspecific. They were split following a 2009 publication which detailed their differences. The whooping motmot has four recognized subspecies, the nominate Momotus subrufescens subrufescens, M. s. spatha, M. s. osgoodi, and M. s. agenticinctus.

Nombre científico
Momotus subrufescens
Autoridad
Sclater, PL, 1853
Orden
Coraciiformes
Familia
Momótidos
Género
Momotus

Distribución y hábitat

The whooping motmot has two disjunct populations. The nominate subspecies is found from eastern Panama to northern and western Colombia. M. s. spatha is only on the Guajira Peninsula of northern Colombia. M. s. osgoodi is found from eastern Colombia into northwestern Venezuela. M. s. agenticinctus is separate; it is found in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. The whooping motmot inhabits several forest types including lowland evergreen and deciduos primary forests, forest edges, and secondary forest.

Migración
Resident species

Comportamiento

Not much is known about the whooping motmot's diet. It probably mostly eats large arthropods but is also reported to eat berries and lizards.<p>Like most Coraciiformes, the whooping motmot nests in long tunnels in earth banks.<p>The whooping motmot's song has been described as "whoooop" and a shorter "whoop" [1].

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional
stable

Fotos

Distribución

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