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title: "Piłodziób czarnogardły"
description: "Eumomota superciliosa — Ptaki. The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/turquoise-browed-motmot
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Piłodziób czarnogardły

> Eumomota superciliosa — Ptaki. The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae.

- Scientific name: *Eumomota superciliosa*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 10300
- Wikidata: [Q922754](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922754)
- iNaturalist taxon: [2168](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2168)

## Names

- en: Turquoise-browed Motmot
- de: Brauenmotmot
- es: Momoto Cejas Azules
- fr: Motmot à sourcils bleus
- nl: Wenkbrauwmotmot
- pt: Torogoz
- pl: Piłodziób czarnogardły

## Countries with the most observations

MX (5677), CR (1888), HN (921), SV (647), NI (572), GT (121)

## Summary

The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It is the only species in its genus Eumomota. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is common and not considered threatened. It lives in fairly open habitats such as forest edge, gallery forest and scrubland. It has a preference for higher tree diversity and richness, alongside a low open canopy and dense understory. It also appears to prefer dry forest. This is in contrast to the other motmot known to inhabit the Yucatán, Lesson…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise-browed_motmot

## Photo

![Piłodziób czarnogardły](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/turquoise-browed-motmot/medium.jpg)

Photo: kkacheltje · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149477143

## Machine access

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