Yellow-billed Jacamar - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Valéry Schollaert
Manaus, Brazil, December 2008

Galbula albirostris

Identification

18–21 cm

• Emerald-green upperparts
• Metallic purplish or coppery-brown head
• Yellow bill
• White throat patch
• Rufous underparts and tail
• Yellow feet and eye ring
  

Female: small white triangle at base of throat

Photo by BirdsPeru
Allpahuayo, Mishana Reserve near Iquitos, Peru

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, The Guianas, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are two subspecies^[1]

• G. a. albirostris:

• Eastern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil

• G. a. chalcocephala:

• South-eastern Colombia to Ecuador, north-eastern Peru; western Brazil (upper Rio Negro)

The second subspecies is proposed split as Cerise-crowned Jacamar

Habitat

Interier of moist primary and mature secondary lowland forests.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes flying insects such as butterflies, dragonflies and cicadas caught while hunting from a perch. They are inclined to sit for some time on the same branch.

Breeding

The nest in termite mounds laying 1-4 white eggs which are incubated by both sexes for 20–23 days. The young fledge after 21–26 days. Both parents care for chicks.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
4. Planet of Birds

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-billed Jacamar. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-billed_Jacamar

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