Jacamar

Jacamars
Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Suborder: Galbuli
Family: Galbulidae
Vigors, 1825
Genera

Galbalcyrhynchus
Brachygalba
Jacamaralcyon
Galbula
Jacamerops

The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of 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.


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