RUFOUS-TAILED JACAMAR – Pura Vida Birds and Birding – Reflections of the Pure World

ABOUT THIS SPECIES

RUFOUS-TAILED JACAMAR – (Species Account Weblog #111)

TAXONOMIC TREE:  

• ORDER: Galbuliformes – Jacamars and Puffbirds
• FAMILY: Galbulidae – Jacamars,
• BINOMIAL NAME: Galbula ruficauda

The Rufous-tailed Jacamar is a stupendous inhabitant of forest edges and clearings of Central and South America. Males are an iridescent coppery/golden inexperienced above with a white throat and cinnamon-rufous underparts. Females are a barely duller inexperienced and have a cinnamon-buff throat. Rufous-tailed Jacamars feed nearly solely on flying bugs, particularly dragonflies, butterflies and moths. (from Birds of the World)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES

In Costa Rica we noticed a single Rufous-tailed Jacamar at Rancho Naturalista and a couple of extra close to Arenal Volcano NP.

PHOTO GALLERY

**A few of these Photograph Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.

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