Great jacamar

Great jacamar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Galbulidae
Genus: Jacamerops
Lesson, 1830
Species: J. aureus
Binomial name
Jacamerops aureus
(Statius Müller, 1776)

The great jacamar (Jacamerops aureus) is a species of bird in the Galbulidae family. It is placed in the monotypic genus Jacamerops.[2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, where its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.[1]

Description

It measures 29.5 to 30 cm (11.61 to 11.81 in) in length and weighs between 63 and 70 g (2.22 and 2.47 oz) . The adult male chin, cheeks and upper region are all bright metallic green with gold overtones, with a blueish tinge on the chin, forehead and tail and purple copper on the back. The lower part of the throat is white and the rest of the lower region is deep rufous. The primaries are black, the tail is blue-black, below the beak is black, and the legs are dark horn-colored. The female resembles the male, but has no white spot on the throat.

Habitat

Its natural habitat is the natural tropical forest to 500 m (1,640 ft) altitude. It lives in the middle levels of the canopy and inside the shaded edges of the rainforest,[3] usually on the banks of streams.

Food

It feeds on insects caught in flight, and on spiders on vegetation.

Reproduction

It breeds from March to May or June. Its nest is a chamber made of a termite tree, at a height between 3 and 15 m (10 and 49 ft).[3]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Jacamerops aureus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "ITIS Report: Jacamerops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 Jacamerops aureus (Muller, 1776) (Jacamar grande); Especies de Costa Rica. INBio.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/8/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.