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Most jacamars are slender, glittery-plumaged forest birds from the Neotropics, such as the bluish-fronted jacamar. An exception is the great jacamar shown here, which is a large, heavy-billed bird that nonethless flits through the forest with eerie silence and speed. These birds (male with a white neck marking, and female) were photographed near their nest in a termitarium near Pantiacolla Lodge in the Peruvian Amazon. They would suddenly appear on a branch right in front of me and it seemed I never managed to see them coming. |
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