Motmots

Word MOTMOTS
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What do we mean by motmots?

Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics.

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The word "motmots" in example sentences

Among this lot are motmots, bee-eaters and rollers. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Rooks Corvus frugilegus and motmots (Momotidae*) are other good examples. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

a spoon-shaped enlargement, as in the motmots and some of the humming-birds. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

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