Videos tagged with "yellow-billed"

Yellow-billed Jacamar (Galbula albirostris) in the Yasuni [01:57]
The Yellow-billed Jacamar is a relatively small member of the genus Galbula found north of the Amazon River in northern Amazonia from eastern Ecuador, southern Colombia and northwestern Brazil. It is replaced south of the Amazon by the very similar Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis). The Yellow-billed Jacamar prefers the understory of terra firme forest. It is quite a striking jacamar, having bright iridescent green upperparts, and rich chestnut underparts, including the undersurface of the tail. Sexes differ slightly, with males having a white throat. It gets its name from the entirely yellow lower mandible. The Yellow-billed Jacamar is most similar to Blue-cheeked Jacamar, which has more iridescent "blue" cheeks, an entirely yellow bill, and males lack the white throat. They are not known to overlap, apparently separated by the Amazon River. Yellow-billed does overlap with the Purplish Jacamar (Galbula chalcothorax), which lacks the chestnut, and prefers the mid-story of both varzea and "transitional" forest. It is also sympatric with White-chinned Jacamar (Galbula tombacea), which favors dense vegetation along the edges of slow-moving streams and oxbow lakes, is larger, and has chestnut restricted to the lower belly. Like other jacamars, the Yellow-billed Jacamar forages by sallying out from low branches for flying insects.
Tags: Yellow-billed, Jacamar, Yasuni, Bird, Birding, Birdwatching, National, Park, Biosphere, Reserve, Ecuador, Amazon, Nature, Wild, Wilderness, Outdoors, Huaorani, People, Ethnic, Eco, Ecoturs

Ecuador 2010 Part 4 [06:13]
Part 4 starts off just after lunch near the Shiripuno Lodge, with white-bearded manakin, long-billed gnatwren, a female sooty antbird, what appeared to be spot-tailed nightjar, and a very skulking black bushbird. Next morning it was back into the rainforest starting with a black-fronted nunbird with a black caracara calling in the background, then female black-tailed trogon, buff-throated foliage-gleaner, maroon-tailed parakeet, yellow-billed jacamar, yellow-browed antbird, a female mouse-coloured antshrike, green-and-gold tanager, rufous-tailed antwren, anhinga, and a sungrebe which had been climbing a tree like a woodcreeper. Then it was back to the lodge for lunch, where we have pale-tailed barbthroat before returning to the forest where we have collared trogon, great kiskadee, bat falcon, juvenile black caracara, and a great way to round off the day and the clip with a rufous-capped antthrush.
Tags: Ecuador, expedition, travel, bird, shiripuno