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Rufous Tailed Jacamar (F)

Jacamars are reacted to puffbirds and more distantly to barbet and toucans. www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021325/Johanss...

 

From Wiki: The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. They are closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical family, and the two families are often separated into their own order, Galbuliformes, separate from the Piciformes. They are principally birds of low-altitude woodlands and forests, and particularly of forest edge and canopy.

Jacamars are insectivores. They spend most of the day perched (inactive) waiting for flying-by insects or butterflies to snatch in mid air and return to the same spot.

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Uploaded on March 26, 2023
Taken on January 9, 2023