Paradise Jacamar

Paradise Jacamar

Taxobox
name = Paradise Jacamar
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Piciformes
familia = Galbulidae
genus = "Galbula"
species = "G. dea"
binomial = "Galbula dea"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)The Paradise Jacamar, "Galbula dea", is a small, approximately 30cm long bird with a long pointed tail, dark brown cap, white throat and long needle-like bill. It has dark greenish blue plumage with iridescent wings. Both sexes are similar.

The Paradise Jacamar is distributed throughout tropical rainforests and savanna of Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and the Guyanas. The bird's range encompasses nearly the entire Amazon Basin, except in the northwest basin in parts of Colombia and Venezuela, (the northeast is the three countries of the Guyanas, which drain to the Atlantic-Caribbean). The diet consists mainly of butterflies and other flying insects.

Widepsread and common throughout its range, the Paradise Jacamar is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=3586 Paradise Jacamar videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=893&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=47564 IUCN Red List]
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/9901700.htm Stamps] (for Guyana) with RangeMap-(not accurate)
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=paradise+jacamar&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Paradise Jacamar photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Galbula+dea Photo-High Res]


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