motmots

Among this lot are motmots, bee-eaters and rollers.

Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

Rooks Corvus frugilegus and motmots (Momotidae*) are other good examples.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Among this lot are motmots, bee-eaters and rollers.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

These birds differ from all other kingfishers (which have usually short tails) by having the two middle tail-feathers immensely lengthened and very narrowly webbed, but terminated by a spoon-shaped enlargement, as in the motmots and some of the humming — birds.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Bee-eaters, trogons, motmots, and toucans, all build in holes, and in none is there any difference in the sexes, although they are, without exception, showy birds.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

We filmed macaws in the wild, red howler monkeys, blue crowned motmots, as well as encounters with crocs, anacondas, the floating forest, a nine foot boa constrictor, and even the elusive short eared dog was caught on tape.

Mongabay.com News 2010

After a breakfast spent watching the colourful array of birds (hummingbirds, motmots, flycatchers, honey creepers, woodpeckers, robins, etc) that visit at breakfast time, we decided to spend the day walking in the rainforest, paying a visit to the local river along the way.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

Keel-billed Motmot is inherently cool just by being a motmot, it is not in any way more cool than other motmots, so it is no great disaster that there is no picture to share (or so I rationalize anyway).

10,000 Birds 2009

We ate lunch - creole stew with cassava, rice and buttery pumpkin - in the large colonial dining room, then sat on the verandah watching hundreds of birds - toucans, hummingbirds, hawks, motmots and jacamars - feeding just a few feet away.

Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

If you’re more familiar with the inclusion of these birds within Coraciiformes – the name previously used for rollers, kingfishers, bee-eaters, todies, motmots, hoopoes and hornbills – then you’ll be interested to know that there is now good evidence indicating that this grouping is artificial.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006