Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Taxobox
name = Rufous-tailed Jacamar


image_caption = male
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Piciformes
familia = Galbulidae
genus = "Galbula"
species = "G. ruficauda"
binomial = "Galbula ruficauda"
binomial_authority = Cuvier, 1816

The Rufous-tailed Jacamar, "Galbula ruficauda", is a near-passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador.

The jacamars are elegant brightly coloured birds with long bills and tails. The Rufous-tailed Jacamar is typically 25 cm long with a 5 cm long black bill. The subspecies "G. r. brevirostris" has, as its name implies, a shorter bill. This bird is metallic green above, and the underparts are mainly orange, including the undertail, but there is a green breast band. Sexes differ in that the male has a white throat, and the female a buff throat; she also tends to have paler underparts. The race "G. r. pallens" has a copper-coloured back in both sexes.

This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub. The two to four rufous-spotted white eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite mound.

This insectivore hunts from a perch, sitting with its bill tilted up, then flying out to catch flying insects. The bird distinguishes between edible and unpalatable butterflies mainly according to body shape (Chai 1996).

The Rufous-tailed Jacamar's call is a sharp "pee-op", and the song a high thin "peeo-pee-peeo-pee-pe-pe", ending in a trill.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* Chai, Peng (1996): Butterfly visual characteristics and ontogeny of responses to butterflies by a specialized tropical bird. "Biol. J. Linn. Soc." 59(1): 37–67.
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=3579 Rufous-tailed Jacamar videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Scientific&KEYWORDS=galbula+ruficauda&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Rufous-tailed Jacamar photo gallery] VIREO
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/9901000.htm Stamps] (for British Honduras-(Belize), Guyana, and Nicaragua)
* [http://www.tsgcs.co.uk/elsom/TO-RTJ01-04-04.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://www.tsgcs.co.uk/stuartelsom/overseas.asp?Category=Tobago%20-%20April%202004 Article] www.tsgcs.co.uk


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