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rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
| Subject: | rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
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Date: 2014:12:14 16:38:59
Camera: Canon EOS 70D (Canon)
F number: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/25 sec
Focal Length: 400/1
Upload Date: 2017:02:06 17:49:56
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Description
English: Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda ruficauda) male, Tobago
Date 14 December 2014, 16:38:59
Source Own work, from Sharp Photography http://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
Author Charlesjsharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rufous-tailed_jacamar_(Galbula_ruficauda_ruficauda)_male.jpg
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. Order: Piciformes, Family: Galbulidae, Genus: Galbula, Species: Galbula ruficauda Cuvier, 1816.
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| The Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda Cuvier 1816) is a beautiful inhabitant of forest edges and clearings of Central and South America. It occurs in several disjunct populations: from eastern Mexico south to western Panama; from eastern Panama south to western Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela; in Guyana; and from Bolivia east to eastern Brazil. The six recognized subspecies of Rufous-tailed Jacamar vary slightly in the amounts of black on the chin and in the number of green central rectrices, but in general males are an iridescent coppery/golden green above with a white throat and cinnamon-rufous underparts. Females are a slightly duller green and have a cinnamon-buff throat. Rufous-tailed Jacamars feed almost exclusively on flying insects, especially dragonflies, butterflies and moths. 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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