Description

This is a relatively small bird, the size of a fist of an adult, on average measuring 34 cm long and weighs about 65 grams. Its body is mostly green with red back and belly, but also presents various shades of green, iridescent blue, white, yellow, orange and black. It has a pale blue stripe over the eye, resembling a mask and throat a black vertical mark with a blue margin. The flight feathers and the upper surface of the tail are also blue. A very striking and characteristic feature is that two long tail feathers protrude the bare rachis and long and wide boom in the end, simulating two big racket, like many other motmots, but the shafts are longer. Many times, especially when alarmed, he moves his tail like a pendulum from one side to another, hence the nickname Yucatec "bird watch." The cry is a nasal caw, "cwaw" or "cwaanh, sometimes repeated and can be heard from afar.