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Blue-necked Jacamar - Galbula cyanicollis  
The blue-necked jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
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Blue-necked Jacamar - Galbula cyanicollis
The blue-necked jacamar is found in the interior of lowland forests.
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Bluish-fronted Jacamar - Galbula cyanescens
The bluish-fronted jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
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Bluish-fronted Jacamar - Galbula cyanescens
The bluish-fronted jacamar is a bright iridescent green with a chestnut lower belly and a bluish-green crown.
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The bronzy jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Bronzy Jacamar - Galbula leucogastra
The bronzy jacamar is found at the edges and clearings in a variety of forest types.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Brown Jacamar - Brachygalba lugubris
The brown jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Brown Jacamar - Brachygalba lugubris
The brown jacamar not green like most jacamars. It is brown with purplish wings.
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Chestnut Jacamar - Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus
The chestnut jacamar is also known as the purus jacamar. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
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Chestnut Jacamar - Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus
The chestnut jacamar is a stocky chestnut bird with a pink bill.
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Coppery-chested Jacamar - Galbula pastazae 
The coppery-chested jacamar is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Coppery-chested Jacamar - Galbula pastazae
The coppery-chested jacamar is metallic green with a a coppery-red belly.
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Coppery-chested Jacamar - Galbula pastazae
The coppery-chested jacamar is found on the eastern slope of the Andes.
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Dusky-backed Jacamar - Brachygalba salmoni 
The dusky-backed jacamar is found in Colombia and Panama.
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Dusky-backed Jacamar - Brachygalba salmoni
The dusky-backed jacamar is greenish black above and has a cinnamon-colored underside. It has a brownish crown and a white throat and cheeks.
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Great Jacamar - Jacamerops aureus
The great jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Green-tailed Jacamar - Galbula galbula
The green-tailed jacamar is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Green-tailed Jacamar - Galbula galbula
The green-tailed jacamar is found at the borders of a variety of woodland habitats.
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Pale-headed Jacamar - Brachygalba goeringi
The pale-headed jacamar is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Pale-headed Jacamar - Brachygalba goeringi
The pale-headed jacamar is found at the edges of lowland forests.
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Paradise Jacamar - Galbula dea
The paradise jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Paradise Jacamar - Galbula dea
The paradise jacamar tends to sit high in the canopy in the open, unlike most other jacamars.
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Purplish Jacamar - Galbula chalcothorax
The purplish jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Purplish Jacamar - Galbula chalcothorax
The purplish jacamar has metallic reddish purple or coppery red upperparts.
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Rufous-tailed Jacamar - Galbula ruficauda
The rufous-tailed jacamar is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
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Rufous-tailed Jacamar - Galbula ruficauda
Rufous-tailed Jacamars feed on flying insects, especially dragonflies, butterflies and moths.
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Three-toed Jacamar - Jacamaralcyon tridactyla
The three-toed jacamar is found in Brazil.
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Three-toed Jacamar - Jacamaralcyon tridactyla
The three-toed jacamar is threatened by habitat loss.
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Three-toed Jacamar - Jacamaralcyon tridactyla
The three-toed jacamar had a brownish head with thin pale streaks, grayish-green upperparts, and a white breast and belly.
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White-chinned Jacamar - Galbula tombacea
The white-chinned jacamar is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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White-chinned Jacamar - Galbula tombacea
The white-chinned jacamar is a bright iridescent green with a chestnut lower belly.
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White-eared Jacamar - Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis
The white-eared jacamar is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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White-eared Jacamar - Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis
The white-eared jacamar is found lowland primary forests, often beside rivers and streams.
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White-throated Jacamar - Brachygalba albogularis
The white-throated jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
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Yellow-billed Jacamar - Galbula albirostris
The yellow-billed jacamar is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Yellow-billed Jacamar - Galbula albirostris
The yellow-billed jacamar has bright iridescent green upperparts, chestnut underparts, and a long yellow bill.
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There are 18 birds in this family. They are found in forests from South American north to Mexico. Most species are 6-12 inches in length. They have long, thin bills; short wings; and long tails. There is one member of this family, the three-toed jacamar, that does not have the zygodactyl feet found in most birds in the Piciformes order.
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