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Rufous-tailed jacamar

Galbula ruficauda Cuvier, 1816

LCLeast Concernbirds

The rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a species in the family Galbulidae, order Piciformes. Recorded adults weigh 26.1 g to 26.9 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Photo: Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the rufous-tailed jacamar

Weight
26.1 g – 26.9 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
21 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
2.8 – 3src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

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Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Jairmoreirafotografia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where does the rufous-tailed jacamar live?

Not recorded

What is the rufous-tailed jacamar?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a bird in the family Galbulidae that breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador.

From the Wikipedia article “Rufous-tailed jacamar” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufous-tailed_jacamar&oldid=1381790505), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

What does the rufous-tailed jacamar sound like?

Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Is the rufous-tailed jacamar endangered?

The rufous-tailed jacamar is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the rufous-tailed jacamar classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPiciformes
  5. familyGalbulidae
  6. genusGalbula
  7. SpeciesGalbula ruficauda Cuvier, 1816
Other names and names in other languages (40)
  • يقمر أصهب الذيلArabic
  • jacamar cua-roigCatalan
  • leskovec neotropickýCzech
  • jacamar cynffongochWelsh
  • Rødhalet JacamarDanish
  • RotschwanzjakamarGerman
  • Rotschwanz-GlanzvogelGerman
  • rufvosta galbuloEsperanto
  • rufavosta jakamaroEsperanto
  • Jacamar cola rufaSpanish
  • Jacamar Cola CanelaSpanish
  • Jacamar colirrufoSpanish
  • Jacamar RabirrufoSpanish
  • Jacamará colirrufoSpanish
  • punasaba-läiklind (punasaba-jakamar)Estonian
  • ruostepyrstöjakamariFinnish
  • Jacamar à queue rousseFrench
  • riđorepi jakamarCroatian
  • vörösfarkú jakamárHungarian
  • Jacamar codaruggineItalian
  • Jacamar codarossicciaItalian
  • アカオキリハシJapanese
  • rusvauodegė žakamaraLithuanian
  • RoodstaartglansvogelDutch
  • rusthalejakamarNorwegian
  • złotopiór rudosternyPolish
  • arirambaPortuguese
  • ariramba-de-cauda-ruivaPortuguese
  • bico-d'agulha-de-cauda-ruivaPortuguese
  • Bico-de-agulha-de-rabo-vermelhoPortuguese
  • Рыжехвостая якамараRussian
  • Краснохвостая якамараRussian
  • jagavec červenochvostýSlovak
  • Riđorepa jakamaraSerbian
  • rödstjärtad jakamarSwedish
  • Paskuyruk jakamarTurkish
  • Kızıl Kuyruklu JakamarTurkish
  • якамара рудохвостаUkrainian
  • 棕尾鶲鴷Chinese
  • 棕尾鹟䴕Chinese

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Relatives of the rufous-tailed jacamar

Other species in the same genus Galbula.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the rufous-tailed jacamar?

An adult rufous-tailed jacamar weighs 26.1 g – 26.9 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the rufous-tailed jacamar endangered?

The rufous-tailed jacamar is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the rufous-tailed jacamar?

The rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) belongs to the family Galbulidae in the order Piciformes.

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Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/rufous-tailed-jacamar

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{rufous_tailed_jacamar_2026,
  title = {Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/rufous-tailed-jacamar},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}