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Brazil and Ecuador The Great Jacamar is distributed from Costa Rica through Panama and coastal Colombia to Esmeraldas in Ecuador and throughout the Orinoco and Amazon Basins. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in humid forest and forest edges though usually seen miles up in the canopy. |
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It is the largest and most sluggish of the jacamars at 25 - 30 cms. The face and upperparts are iridescent green-gold
and the underparts are chestnut-rufous. The male has a white lower throat which you can just make out in photo 1.
Its song is a mournful whistle not unlike that of a hawk. |
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