Green-tailed Jacamar (Galbula galbula) Dutch text English text Vogels in Suriname/Birds in Suriname




Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Carl Beel
© Carl Beel

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Foek Chin Joe
© Foek Chin Joe

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Louis des Tombe
© Louis des Tombe

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Ricardo van Dijk
© Ricardo van Dijk

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Ton Plug
© Ton Plug

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Frank Valk
© Frank Valk

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Martin Reid
© Martin Reid

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Dominiek Plouvier
© Dominiek Plouvier

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Armida Madngisa nature guide
sand bathing © Armida Madngisa nature guide

Galbula galbula, Green-tailed Jacamar, Tucuso de Bosque coliverde, Ariramba-de-cauda-verde by Jean-Pierre Veira
The head of the dragonfly flew off © Jean-Pierre Veira

   



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.



Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a
Green-tailed Jacamar
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Video recording of a
Green-tailed Jacamar
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Distribution




Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least four observations on different days and the largest ones ten or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
Not all places in Suriname have been equally often visited by birders, so the distribution of the squares gives an indication of the whereabouts of the birds, but also of the birders. Some places deep in the south have no reported bird observations, by experienced birders, within 60 kilometer.

Abundance in different areas
coastal zone (blue dots on the map) :
northern savannas (yellow dots (in the north)) :
rainforest under 400 m (red dots) :
rainforest above 400 m (red dots) :
Sipaliwini savanna (yellow dots (in the south)) :

A blank is shown if not convincingly reported in the zone.
Data interpreted by Arie Spaans, Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot.



Names
Scientific name: Galbula galbula
Order: Galbuliformes
Family: Galbulidae, 6 in Suriname
Dutch: Groenstaart glansvogel
English: Green-tailed Jacamar
Sranan ('Surinamese'): Granman korke
Guyana:
Papiamento:
Spanish (Venezuela): Tucuso de Bosque coliverde
Portugese (Brazil): Ariramba-de-cauda-verde
Arowak:
Carib:
French: Jacamar vert


Observations through the year Observations of breeding through the year
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.


Fatbirder's Top 1000 Birding Websites Last update: September 2024 by Jan Hein Ribot. Please mail your comments, photos to: jhribot ( residing at ) gmail (point!) com.
observations can be uploaded to suriname.observation.org or ebird.org ).