The Paradise Jacamar has dark upperparts and underparts and elongated central tail feathers. In Bolivia's Amazonian forest, pairs perch high in the canopy and may associate with mixed-species flocks.
The back and underside are dark, and the central tail feathers are elongated.
It is seen in pairs and may loosely associate with mixed-species canopy flocks. It sits still on horizontal branches high in the canopy or subcanopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.