Green-tailed Jacamar (Galbula galbula) |
The Green-tailed Jacamar is the most seen jacamar in Suriname, it comes even into town gardens with trees and can be found in Tourtonne and Peperpot for instance. It hunts for flying insects from a look-out, like all jacamars. It often nests in holes in termite nests. First a picture of a glittering female Green-tailed Jacamar was made by Carl Beel in the Peperpot plantation in September 2009. Then a beautiful picture, a male with a white chin, made by Foek Chin Joe in Suriname in 2005. Then a female, without the white chin, by Louis des Tombe in Batavia, Suriname in October 2007. The last photo is a male, made by Ricardo van Dijk in February 2009 in the Coesewijne savanna. Armida Madngisa made a video at Kabalebo nature reserve of a Green-tailed Jacamr bathing in sand to remove .parasites, I think. The second video was made by Dominiek Plouvier. |
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Video recording of a Green-tailed Jacamar © ; | Video recording of a Green-tailed Jacamar © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 491 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 2 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |