Raja-udang (Kingfishers)
Keel-billed Motmot
Electron carinatum
- epik
- 42 km/h
- Rentan
IUCN Vulnerable. Keel-shaped ridge on the bill sets it apart. One of the rarest motmots alive.
- Populasi
- 1,500–7,000 mature individuals, decreasing; 2–100 subpopulations
- Habitat
- Humid evergreen lowland and foothill/montane forest, often in steep-sided gullies along streams, mostly up to ~760-900 m (locally 1,220-1,600 m in Honduras/northern Central America); high forest dependency, favoring primary and secondary foothill forest; occurs at low densities, rare to uncommon
- Fakta menarik
- The Keel-billed Motmot nests in burrows it digs into earthen stream banks, and at one site in Belize it has been recorded nesting inside unexcavated ancient Maya structures.
- Sebaran
- Caribbean slope of Central America across six countries: southern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca) through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to northern Costa Rica (Alajuela Province); extent of occurrence ~277,000 km²; recorded at relatively few scattered localities
- Makanan
- Mainly insects and other arthropods, also small frogs, lizards, and snakes taken by sallying from a perch (diet assumed similar to congener broad-billed motmot); eats little fruit compared to other motmots
- Ukuran
- 0,34 m
- Masa hidup
- 3,2 tahun
