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title: "Lessons motmot"
description: "Momotus lessonii — Vogels. Lesson's motmot (Momotus lessonii) or the blue-diademed motmot, is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of southern Mexico to western Panama."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/lesson-s-motmot
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Lessons motmot

> Momotus lessonii — Vogels. Lesson's motmot (Momotus lessonii) or the blue-diademed motmot, is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of southern Mexico to western Panama.

- Scientific name: *Momotus lessonii*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 10157
- Wikidata: [Q3325204](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3325204)
- iNaturalist taxon: [509025](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/509025)

## Names

- en: Lesson's Motmot
- de: Diademmotmot
- es: Momoto Corona Negra
- fr: Motmot de Lesson
- nl: Lessons motmot
- pl: Piłodziób żółtopierśny

## Countries with the most observations

CR (5260), MX (1879), PA (683), HN (529), GT (436), SV (363), BZ (281), NI (161)

## Summary

Lesson's motmot (Momotus lessonii) or the blue-diademed motmot, is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of southern Mexico to western Panama.  This species and the blue-capped motmot, whooping motmot, Trinidad motmot, Amazonian motmot, and Andean motmot were all considered conspecific.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson%27s_motmot

## Photo

![Lessons motmot](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lesson-s-motmot/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193337588

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lesson-s-motmot?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).