Momotidae

E700992

bird family taxon

Momotidae is a family of colorful, medium-sized Neotropical birds known as motmots, characterized by their long, often racket-tipped tails and insectivorous habits.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Momotidae canonical	2

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bird family ⓘ taxon ⓘ
class	Aves ⓘ
commonName	motmots ⓘ
describedBy	John Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ
eats	fruits ⓘ insects ⓘ small invertebrates ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ
eggColor	white ⓘ
geographicRange	from Mexico to northern Argentina ⓘ
habitat	forest understory ⓘ riparian forest ⓘ subtropical forest ⓘ tropical forest ⓘ woodland edges ⓘ
hasBehavior	perch-and-sally foraging ⓘ sit-and-wait hunting ⓘ tail-wagging display ⓘ territorial calling ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	colorful plumage ⓘ long tail ⓘ medium-sized body ⓘ often racket-tipped tail ⓘ
hasCommonSpecies	Aspatha gularis NERFINISHED ⓘ Baryphthengus martii NERFINISHED ⓘ Electron platyrhynchum NERFINISHED ⓘ Hylomanes momotula NERFINISHED ⓘ Momotus momota NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGenus	Aspatha NERFINISHED ⓘ Baryphthengus NERFINISHED ⓘ Electron NERFINISHED ⓘ Hylomanes NERFINISHED ⓘ Momotus NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNotableFeature	bright green and blue coloration in many species ⓘ racket-tipped central tail feathers in many species ⓘ
hasSubfamily	Momotinae NERFINISHED ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
nativeTo	Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ Central America ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Neotropics NERFINISHED ⓘ South America ⓘ
nestsIn	burrows in earth banks ⓘ tunnel nests ⓘ
order	Coraciiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
reproduction	cavity nester ⓘ
taxonRank	family ⓘ
typicalDiet	insectivorous ⓘ omnivorous ⓘ
vocalization	series of hoots and coos ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Momotidae
Description of subject: Momotidae is a family of colorful, medium-sized Neotropical birds known as motmots, characterized by their long, often racket-tipped tails and insectivorous habits.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coraciiformes → containsFamilies → Momotidae ⓘ

Afroaves → includes → Momotidae ⓘ