Blue-capped Motmot

When to see the Blue-capped Motmot

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-capped Motmot

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Costa Rica.

About the Blue-capped Motmot

The blue-capped motmot or blue-crowned motmot, is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of eastern Mexico. This species and the Lesson's Motmot, Whooping Motmot, Trinidad Motmot, Amazonian Motmot, and Andean Motmot were all considered conspecific. The IUCN uses blue-crowned as their identifier for this species; however, it was also the name used for the prior species complex.

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Easily confused with

Trinidad MotmotMomotus bahamensisThe Trinidad motmot is much more deeply and uniformly rufous below than other species in Momotus. Russet-crowned MotmotMomotus mexicanusVoice: The russet-crowned motmot produces a low "krrp", "krrup", or "kru, krr-up" which is strung together, making a longer call. Whooping MotmotMomotus subrufescensThe whooping motmot's back and wings are olive-green and the underparts dull brown.