Rufous-tailed jacamar

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Rufous-tailed jacamar
Female, Brazil
Male G. r. rufoviridis in the Pantanal, Brazil, and a recording from Ecuador

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Galbulidae
Genus: Galbula
Species:
G. ruficauda
Binomial name
Galbula ruficauda
Cuvier, 1816

The rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a

near-passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador
.

Description

Like other jacamars they are elegant, brightly coloured birds with long bills and tails. The rufous-tailed jacamar is typically 25 cm (10 in) long with a 5 cm (2 in) long black bill. The subspecies G. r. brevirostris has, as its name implies, a shorter bill. This bird is metallic green above, and the underparts are mainly orange, including the undertail, but there is a green breast band. Sexes differ in that the male has a white throat, and the female a buff throat; she also tends to have paler underparts. The race G. r. pallens has a copper-coloured back in both sexes.

  • Male G. r. ruficauda Tobago
    Male
    G. r. ruficauda
    Tobago
  • Male G. r. melanogenia Belize
    Male
    G. r. melanogenia
    Belize
  • Male G. r. rufoviridis the Pantanal, Brazil
    Male
    G. r. rufoviridis
    the Pantanal, Brazil

Food and foraging

This

butterflies.[2] Further, the bird distinguishes between edible and unpalatable butterflies mainly according to body shape.[3]

Nesting

This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub. The two to four rufous-spotted white

eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite
mound.

Vocalizations

The rufous-tailed jacamar's call is a sharp pee-op, and the song a high thin peeo-pee-peeo-pee-pe-pe, ending in a trill.

Bibliography

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22682200A163585918.en
    . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Galbula ruficauda (Rufous-tailed Jacamar)" (PDF). Sta.uwi.edu. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  3. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01452.x
    .

External links

Media related to Galbula ruficauda at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Galbula ruficauda at Wikispecies

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