Watch a Family of Four Rufous Motmots Foraging at the Fruit Feeder | June 29, 2024
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- The resident Rufous Motmot pair (which includes a one-eyed adult that has been seen on site since before the cam went live in 2017) visited the feeder along with their two offspring on a wet day at Canopy Lodge. To spot the youngsters keep an eye out for their shorter tails and puffier appearance (they're also the individuals that the longer-tailed adults are feeding).
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About the Site
The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is located on the grounds of the Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Antón, Panama. This site is just over 2,000 ft above sea level in the low mountains of Cerro Gaital, with a mild springtime climate year-round. A small stream called Rio Guayabo runs past the feeders in the background, and the lush landscaping of the Canopy Lodge grounds grade into the forested slopes around them. The feeding table is around 40 feet from the main lodge, and is one of several feeders provisioned throughout the day so that guests to the lodge are greeted to spectacular views of many of the common birds found in this ecosystem.
About the Canopy Lodge
The Canopy Lodge is a full service lodge specializing in nature tourism with a focus on birds. It is about 60 miles west of Panama City in the picturesque village of El Valle de Antón, right in the center of the gigantic crater of an extinct volcano. This is the largest inhabited crater in the Western Hemisphere and second only to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. It is surrounded by the Cerro Gaital Natural Monument.
Canopy Lodge is one of a series of three ecotourism ventures developed by the Canopy Family. The first, Canopy Tower, involved transforming a former U.S. radar station overlooking the Panama Canal in Soberanía National Park into a unique birding lodge embedded in the canopy of the surrounding forest. Their newest property, Canopy Camp, offers a taste of some of the wildest lowland rainforest in Panama in the Darién region.
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Beautiful birds!
Thanks for feeding Them👍😍❤️… 👋🇸🇻
Love motmots!
does that one in the front have a missing eye?
yes, if you read the video description above, there is mention about the eye
were the two that flew onto the screen at first juveniles? their tails looked much less developed than the 3rd motmot)? if the juveniles are able to fly to the table, why do they not feed themselves? is it just habit? that as long as they are around the parent, it is expected that the parent would feed them? the juveniles don't feed themselves until they have completed their fledging?
Some species feed their fledglings for a month or two after fledging. Eagles and owls are two species that come to mind, but they’re many more. It appears that these parrots do the same.
@@cherylinolan thanks
@cherylinolan is spot-on. In the case of these motmots, while the youngsters can fly they may not yet really understand their own capacity to get and process the food that sustains them. This is part of the learning process for lots of species of birds, where juvies are fed for some period of time, getting introduced to where and how to process the food, and eventually they start doing it for themselves.