Broad-billed Motmot
Electron platyrhynchum
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Momotidae
- Genus
- Electron
- eBird Code
- brbmot1
Vocalizations
River Ahlquist · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (6)
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Electron platyrhynchum chlorophrys
Rondônia (race?), Mato Grosso northeastward to northern Pará (central Brazil south of the Amazon River)
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Electron platyrhynchum colombianum
northern Colombia (humid lowlands north of the Andes)
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Electron platyrhynchum minus
far northeastern Guatemala to northern Colombia (lower Cauca Valley)
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Electron platyrhynchum orienticola
Amazonas and Acre (western Amazonian Brazil)
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Electron platyrhynchum platyrhynchum
western Colombia and western Ecuador
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Electron platyrhynchum pyrrholaemum
eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.