#galbula ruficauda

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BOTD: Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Photo: Egon Fink

"Handsome, slender, green-and-rusty bird of humid tropical lowlands. Lives in evergreen forest, often at edges and around adjacent clearings. Perches upright at mid-heights on vines or other exposed perches and sallies out for flying insects, especially butterflies, dragonflies, and wasps. Note the very long, slender black bill (like a giant hummingbird). Throat is white on male and buffy on female. Loud shrieking calls may draw attention."

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar

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December 28, 2016 - Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)

These jacamars are found in Central and South America, in several geographically separated populations. They eat a variety of flying insects, especially dragonflies, butterflies, and moths, hunting from a perch and beating prey against it before eating. Nesting in burrows located in banks, steep slopes, and termite nests, males and females share incubation duties. Females incubate during the night and males during the day. Both parents feed the chicks, though males may bring food more often.

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda), Costa Rica.

Shot on a Nikon D500, with a VR 300mm f/2.8G lens.

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Galbula ruficauda

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar 

The Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Galbula ruficauda (Piciformes - Galbulidae), is a beautiful inhabitant of forest edges and clearings of Central and South America.

These birds forage from a perch on an exposed branch 1 to 3 meters from the ground, and sally out to catch insects on the wing.  After the jacamar has caught an insect it beats it several times against a branch to stun it and remove the insect's wings before it swallows.

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Photo credit: ©Fabio Rage

Locality: Argenita, Minas Gerais, Brazil