Paradise Jacamar (Galbula dea dea), French Guiana
Filmed on 2024-07-12 16:43h near Comte (Oyak) river, French Guiana (4.645278, -52.344861) with Panasonic FZ300 (stabilized, brightness adjusted)
Species number: 00116 part 2, Sex: undetermined, Age: adult, Vocalization: no.
The paradise jacamar mostly inhabits terra firme, várzea, and savanna forests, both primary and secondary. It is also found in dry forest and gallery forest. It is most often found along edges or in open areas such as clearings and treefalls, and rarely in the forest interior. Unusually for a jacamar, it is mostly seen in the canopy rather than the mid level. It is most often found below 500 m (1,600 ft) of elevation but locally occurs up to 1,100 m (3,600 ft)
The paradise jacamar's diet is primarily Lepidoptera, Odonata, Diptera, and Hymenoptera, but it also takes other flying insects. It perches on exposed branches by itself, in pairs, or in small groups and sallies out to catch its prey. It sometimes joins mixed-species foraging flocks in the canopy.
A pair of paradise jacamars was seen excavating a burrow in an arboreal termite nest, and pairs have often been seen near such nests. No other information about the species' breeding phenology has been recorded.
The paradise jacamar's song is "a well-spaced “peep peep peep peep peep peep pee pee pe pe”, usually descending, becoming slightly faster and weaker towards [the] end". Its calls are variously "a single 'pip', 'peeap' or 'glewweh'"
--from Wikipedia
Its name in different languages:
Arawak: Henauya
Catalan: Jacamar cuallarg
Carib: Kawasi
Czech: Leskovec rajský
Danish: Paradisjacamar
German: Paradiesglanzvogel, Paradies-Glanzvogel, Paradiesjakamar
English: Paradise Jacamar
Esperanto: Digalbulo
Spanish: Barranquero Colilargo, Jacamar de Cola Larga, Jacamar Negro, Jacamar Paraíso, Jacamará Colilargo
Spanish (Colombia): Jacamar Negro
Spanish (Ecuador): Jacamar Paraíso
Spanish (Spain): Jacamará Colilargo
Spanish (Peru): Jacamar del Paraíso
Spanish (Venezuela): Barranquero Colilargo
Estonian: tõmmujakamar, tõmmu-läiklind, tõmmu-läiklind (tõmmujakamar)
Finnish: Paratiisijakamari
French: Jacamar à longue queue
Croatian: dugorepi jakamar
Hungarian: paradicsomjakamár
Icelandic: Meyjagosi
Italian: Jacamar del Paradiso
Japanese (romaji): anagakirihashi, onagakirihashi
Japanese: アナガキリハシ, オナガキリハシ
Kirghiz: бейиш якамарасы
Scientific: Alcedo Dea, Galbula dea, Galbula dea dea
Lithuanian: Tamsioji žakamara
Dutch: Paradijsglansvogel
Norwegian Nynorsk: Paradisjakamar
Norwegian: Paradisjakamar
Wayampi: Yawa, Yawaimi'a
Polish: Złotka świetna, zlotopiór wspanialy, złotopiór wspaniały
Portuguese: ariramba-azul, Ariramba-da-copa, ariramba-do-paraíso, uirapiana, upianá
Portuguese (Brazil): ariramba-azul, ariramba-da-copa, ariramba-do-paraiso, Ariramba-do-paraíso, uirapiana, upianá
Portuguese (Portugal): Ariramba-do-paraíso, bico-d'agulha-do-paraíso
Russian: Райская якамара
Slovak: jagavec dlhochvostý
Serbian: Rajska jakamara
Sranan: Granmankorke
Swedish: Paradisjakamar
Turkish: Uzun kuyruklu jakamar
Ukrainian: Якамара турмалінова
Wayana: Latëwe
Chinese: 黑腹鹟䴕, 黑腹鹟鴷
Chinese (Traditional): 黑腹鶲鴷