Brown Jacamar - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by arthurgrosset
Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003

Brachygalba lugubris

Identification

• Dark iridescent greenish-black lower back
• Brown crown and mantle
• White chin and throat
• Rufous breast
• White underparts
• Black wings and tail
• Very long pointed bill
• Black legs
• Red iris
  

Sexes alike

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 7 subspecies:

• B. l. fulviventris:

• Eastern base of eastern Andes of Colombia (Buenavista and Villavicencio)

• B. l. caquetae:

• Eastern base of Eastern Andes of Colombia (south of Caquetá) to eastern Peru

• B. l. lugubris:

• Eastern and southern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil

• B. l. obscuriceps:

• Extreme southern Venezuela and north-western Brazil

• B. l. naumburgae:

• North-eastern Brazil (Maranhão and Piauí)

• B. l. melanosterna:

• Eastern Bolivia; central and south-western Brazil

• B. l. phaeonota:

• Central Brazil (known from one specimen from Rio Solimões)

Habitat

Gallery forest, savanna woodland, forests near rivers.

Behaviour

Breeding

It nests in burrows.

Diet

The diet includes insects.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brown Jacamar. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown_Jacamar

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