motmot

Any of various tropical American birds of the family Momotidae, usually having green and blue plumage with long tail feathers that have paddle- or racket-shaped tips.

A bird of the family Momotidæ or Prionitidæ; a sawbill.

Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.

Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics.

tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage