The Coppery-chested Jacamar is a 23–24 cm jacamar of humid mountain forest. Its account classifies it as an aerial hunter of invertebrates.
The account gives a body length of 23–24 cm and a weight of about 31.8 g.
It is active by day in humid lower montane and upper cloud forest at 600–1,700 m, mainly 1,000–1,300 m. The account classifies its foraging as aerial predation on invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.