Yellow-billed jacamar

Yellow-billed jacamar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Galbulidae
Genus: Galbula
Species: G. albirostris
Binomial name
Galbula albirostris
Latham, 1790

The yellow-billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris) is a species of bird in the Galbulidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. It is a bird of the Amazon Basin; its range is only on the north side of the Amazon River, except at the river's outlet in a small region of northeastern Pará state, Brazil. The Andes cordillera is the western limit of the species.

Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.

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