One-eyed Rufous Motmot Feeds Its Family At Panama Fruit Feeder - Oct. 17, 2023
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Watch a Rufous Motmot shuttle bits of food to three young offspring visiting the Panama Fruit Feeder Cam's platform and upper branches. The adult in this video is the one-eyed individual that had been frequenting the feeder on cam for multiple seasons. It's great to see the next generation of motmots discovering the bounty of the feeder!
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The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Canopy Family, and explore.org.
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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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That's amazing that the one-eyed bird is able to thrive despite its situation. What a beautiful birdy and what a lovely little family it has!
Bless her. She totally is not bothered by the missing eye. ❤
The missing eye doesn't seem to slow him/her down. Beautiful colors!
miracle birds. gentle, beautiful 💖
Nature is not gentle, specially in mating season.
This is incredible! I've known about this Rufous motmot for several years now, and love seeing it on the feeder. T see it feeding its family like this is spectacular! I'm in awe how well it functions with only one eye. Also loved the close-up views; so fascinating to see the young ones up close and see the slighter smaller bill and overall size (for now) as well as the slightly lighter-coloured eyes. Stunning birds to see and in particular this one sensational motmot. Do we know if it is a male or female?
P.S. The little one at 7:44 is SUPER CUTE!
We don't know for sure, but a one-eyed individual has been there for years, since before the camera was established in 2017-2018
That Birdy is a survivor!
That Birdy is a survivor!
That's just amazing!!! ❤
They have some beautiful colors ❤
Good there is a second parent feeding them, each caring after one baby, and that easy access to food has been provided at the station - thank you! Im not sure a one eyed bird would otherwise be able to survive, given predator challenges and all….
Such beautiful birds. She's a rockstar thru and thru!
Those are beautiful birds. I visited Panama when I was a child, but I have no memory of the birds that were there. While that is unfortunate, we’re all blessed to be able to see them on UA-cam. Thank you for sharing this.
it's so cute that the babies have shorter tails, not done growing yet!
Love these guys.