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Yellow-billed jacamar

Galbula albirostris Latham, 1790

LCLeast Concernbirds

The yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris) is a species in the family Galbulidae, order Piciformes. Recorded adults weigh 21 g to 22.1 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris)
Photo: Hector Bottai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the yellow-billed jacamar

Weight
21 g – 22.1 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2src 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

Where does the yellow-billed jacamar live?

Not recorded

What is the yellow-billed jacamar?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris) is a species of bird in the family Galbulidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

From the Wikipedia article “Yellow-billed jacamar” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow-billed_jacamar&oldid=1379920109), 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.

Is the yellow-billed jacamar endangered?

The yellow-billed 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 yellow-billed jacamar classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPiciformes
  5. familyGalbulidae
  6. genusGalbula
  7. SpeciesGalbula albirostris Latham, 1790
Other names and names in other languages (32)
  • يقمر أصفر المنقارArabic
  • jacamar becgrocCatalan
  • leskovec žlutozobýCzech
  • jacamar pigfelynWelsh
  • Gulnæbbet JacamarDanish
  • GelbschnabelglanzvogelGerman
  • Gelbschnabel-GlanzvogelGerman
  • Blankbeka galbuloEsperanto
  • flavbeka jakamaroEsperanto
  • jacamará piquigualdoSpanish
  • Jacamará piquigualdo orientalSpanish
  • selva-läiklind (selva-jakamar)Estonian
  • keltanokkajakamariFinnish
  • Jacamar à bec jauneFrench
  • žutokljuni jakamarCroatian
  • sárgacsőrű jakamárHungarian
  • Jacamar beccogialloItalian
  • キバシキリハシJapanese
  • geltonsnapė žakamaraLithuanian
  • GeelsnavelglansvogelDutch
  • gulnebbjakamarNorwegian
  • złotopiór żółtodziobyPolish
  • ariramba-de-bico-amareloPortuguese
  • bico-d'agulha-de-bico-amareloPortuguese
  • Желтоклювая якамараRussian
  • jagavec žltozobýSlovak
  • Žutokljuna jakamaraSerbian
  • gulnäbbad jakamarSwedish
  • Sarı Gagalı JakamarTurkish
  • якамара жовтодзьобаUkrainian
  • 黃嘴鶲鴷Chinese
  • 黄嘴鹟䴕Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the yellow-billed 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 yellow-billed jacamar?

An adult yellow-billed jacamar weighs 21 g – 22.1 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the yellow-billed jacamar endangered?

The yellow-billed 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 yellow-billed jacamar?

The yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris) belongs to the family Galbulidae in the order Piciformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

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

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-billed-jacamar

MLA

“Yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-billed-jacamar.

BibTeX
@misc{yellow_billed_jacamar_2026,
  title = {Yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-billed-jacamar},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}