Motmot

Species

Bird groups

Birds grouped the way birders talk about them, from shorebirds to wood-warblers. Open a group to see its species and the lookalikes that are hardest to tell apart.

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Accentors (12) African and Green Broadbills (6) Albatrosses (20) Alcids (25) Antbirds (231) Antthrushes (11) Asian and Grauer's Broadbills (10) Asities (4) Australasian Robins (50) Australian Treecreepers (7) Australo-Papuan Bellbirds (3) Barbets and Toucans (128) Becards, Tityras, and Allies (35) Bee-eaters (31) Bellmagpies and Allies (13) Berrypeckers and Longbills (11) Birds-of-Paradise (44) Blackbirds (106) Boatbills (2) Bristlebirds (3) Bulbuls (148) Bush Warblers and Allies (30) Bushshrikes and Allies (50) Bustards (26) Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies (49) Cassowaries and Emu (4) Catbirds, Mockingbirds, and Thrashers (33) Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows (56) Chat-Tanagers and Greater Antillean Tanagers (11) Cisticolas and Allies (157) Cockatoos (22) Cormorants and Anhingas (36) Cotingas (65) Cranes (15) Crescentchests (4) Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies (18) Cuban Warblers (2) Cuckoos (142) Cuckooshrikes (83) Cupwings (4) Dapple-throats (3) Dippers (5) Drongos (28) Estrildids (135) Fairy Flycatchers (9) Fairy-bluebirds (3) Fairywrens (30) Falcons and Caracaras (64) Fantails (60) Finches, Euphonias, and Allies (210) Finfoots (3) Flamingos (6) Flowerpeckers (51) Flufftails (13) Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets (15) Frogmouths (16) Gnatcatchers (19) Gnateaters and Antpittas (79) Grassbirds and Allies (60) Grebes (21) Ground Babblers and Allies (64) Grouse, Quail, and Allies (223) Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (98) Herons, Ibis, and Allies (100) Honeyeaters (174) Honeyguides (14) Hoopoes (2) Hornbills (64) Hummingbirds (357) Hylias and Yellow Flycatchers (5) Hyliotas (4) Ioras (4) Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens (127) Kingfishers (113) Kinglets (6) Kiwis (5) Larks (88) Laughingthrushes and Allies (142) Leaf Warblers (79) Leafbirds (12) Leaftossers and Miners (18) Logrunners (3) Long-tailed Tits and Bushtit (11) Longspurs and Snow Buntings (6) Loons (5) Lyrebirds (2) Malagasy Warblers (10) Manakins (55) Martins and Swallows (84) Megapodes (21) Melampittas (2) Mesites (3) Mitrospingid Tanagers (4) Monarch Flycatchers (87) Motmots (14) Mousebirds (6) New World Sparrows (124) New Zealand Parrots (3) New Zealand Wrens (3) Nicators (3) Nightjars (92) Nuthatches (29) Old World Buntings (44) Old World Flycatchers (338) Old World Orioles (39) Old World Pittas (45) Old World Sparrows (42) Ostriches (2) Ovenbirds (233) Owlet-nightjars (8) Owls (236) Oxpeckers (2) Pardalotes (4) Parrotbills, Wrentit, and Allies (38) Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies (358) Pelicans (8) Penduline-Tits and Verdin (11) Penguins (17) Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels (93) Pigeons and Doves (333) Potoos and Oilbird (8) Pseudo-Babblers (5) Puffbirds and Jacamars (55) Quail-thrushes and Jewel-babblers (12) Rails, Gallinules, and Allies (129) Reed Warblers and Allies (53) Rheas (2) Rockfowl (2) Rockjumpers (2) Rollers and Allies (18) Sandgrouse (16) Satinbirds (3) Screamers (3) Scrub-birds and Bowerbirds (22) Seriemas (2) Sharpbill, Royal Flycatchers, and Allies (8) Shoebill and Hammerkop (2) Shorebirds (243) Shrike-Babblers and Erpornis (8) Shrike-tits (3) Shrikes (34) Silky-flycatchers (4) Sittellas (3) Skuas and Jaegers (7) Spotted Creepers (2) Starlings and Mynas (117) Storks (20) Storm-Petrels (28) Sugarbirds (2) Sunbirds and Spiderhunters (145) Swifts (101) Sylviid Warblers (32) Tanagers and Allies (375) Tapaculos (63) Thornbills and Allies (64) Thrushes (167) Tinamous (44) Tit Berrypecker and Crested Berrypecker (3) Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice (61) Todies (5) Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies (56) Treecreepers (9) Treeswifts (4) Trogons and Quetzals (45) Tropicbirds (3) Trumpeters (3) Turacos (23) Tyrant Flycatchers: Elaenias, Tyrannulets, and Allies (228) Tyrant Flycatchers: Pewees, Kingbirds, and Allies (207) Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies (40) Vireos (51) Vultures, Hawks, and Allies (257) Wagtails and Pipits (69) Waterfowl (169) Wattle-eyes and Batises (32) Wattlebirds (5) Waxwings (3) Weavers and Allies (120) Whipbirds and Wedgebills (4) Whistlers and Allies (48) White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies (137) White-winged Chough and Apostlebird (2) Whiteheads (3) Whydahs and Indigobirds (19) Wood-Warblers (110) Woodcreepers (57) Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills (8) Woodpeckers (234) Woodswallows (11) Wrens (83)