The rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a near passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador.

Like other jacamars they are elegant, brightly coloured birds with long bills and tails.

[3] This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub.

The two to four rufous-spotted white eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite mound.

The rufous-tailed jacamar's call is a sharp pee-op, and the song a high thin peeo-pee-peeo-pee-pe-pe, ending in a trill.