Amazonian Motmot

Taxonomy

Order

Coraciiformes

Family

Momotidae

Genus

Momotus

eBird Code

bucmot4

Subspecies (9)

• Momotus momota cametensis

  north-central Brazil between Rio Tapajós and Rio Tocantins

• Momotus momota ignobilis

  eastern Amazonian Peru and western Brazil

• Momotus momota marcgravianus

  northeastern Brazil (Paraíba to Alagoas)

• Momotus momota microstephanus

  Colombia and Ecuador (east of the Andes) and adjacent northwestern Brazil

• Momotus momota momota

  tropical eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and northern Brazil north of the lower Amazon

• Momotus momota nattereri

  tropical base of Andes of northeastern Bolivia

• Momotus momota parensis

  eastern Brazil (Rio Tocantins to Maranhão and Piauí)

• Momotus momota pilcomajensis

  southern Bolivia to southern Brazil and northwestern Argentina

• Momotus momota simplex

  Peru/Brazil border south of the Amazon River, eastward to Rio Tapajós and southward to northern Mato Grosso