Bird Photographs by John Van de Graaff birdsbyjohn.com |
Blue-crowned
Motmot Costa Rica boasts a half-dozen vividly-colored motmots, of which the blue-crowned is generally the most common. The sexes are similar; the long tail feathers are complete when newly-molted, but the loosely attached barbs above the racket-like tip fall off as the bird mature. |
