Jacamars
Galbulidae
The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. The family is closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical family, and the two families are often separated into their own order, Galbuliformes, separate from the Piciformes. They are principally birds of low-altitude woodlands and forests, and particularly of forest edge and canopy.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 18 known species
Typical Jacamars
genusGalbula
Chestnut Jacamars
genusGalbalcyrhynchus
Small Jacamars
genusBrachygalba
Jacamerops
genusJacamerops
Jacamaralcyon
genusJacamaralcyon
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1454.