Rufous motmot
Taken in Ecuador near Tandayapa, A regular visitor to the feeders at the lodge where we stayed. Baryphthengus martii The Rufous Motmot prefers humid lowland and hill forest where it consumes a large variety of food items ranging from various fruits to invertebrates and even small vertebrates, sometimes in the company of army ants. When foraging, it is a typical low energy specialist sitting quietly on a shaded horizontal branch for long periods of time from which it suddenly darts out after passing insects.