Whooping Motmot

Taxonomy

Order

Coraciiformes

Family

Momotidae

Genus

Momotus

eBird Code

bucmot3

Subspecies (4)

• Momotus subrufescens argenticinctus

  tropical western Ecuador and northwestern Peru

• Momotus subrufescens osgoodi

  humid forest of western Venezuela (Lake Maracaibo region)

• Momotus subrufescens spatha

  eastern Colombia (Serrania Macuira in eastern Guajira)

• Momotus subrufescens subrufescens

  eastern Panama to northern Colombia, including lower Cauca Valley and Magdalena Valley, and northern Venezuela (east to Aragua); south on the Pacific coast of Colombia to the Atrato Valley