For those that have been to Trinidad and Tobago, waking up in the morning to spy the electric colors of a motmot at close range on the Centre’s feeders at dawn is a thrill. Mid-day, finding this tropical icon perched in the forest makes one feel as if they’d just stolen first prize on a scavenger hunt. On Tobago, motmots seem quite tame on the grounds of Blue Waters Inn, and visiting birders have found them asleep atop the light fixtures on their porches. If you have not been back to “T and T” in a while, or looked at the marvelous species list you compiled there, you are in for a nice surprise. Trinidad’s rusty-chested member of the Blue-crowned Motmot clan is now widely recognized as one of five species formerly known by that name. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology details the taxonomic split, and outlines how much we have yet to learn about Momotus bahamensis now that it is an island celebrity. Learn more about the Trinidad Motmot on Cornell’s Neotropical Birds site. Better yet, let us help you book a return to see it again, from the greatest birdwatching porch in the world at Asa Wright Nature Centre.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:15:27 +0000
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