The Great Jacamar is notable for glossy green plumage and a rufous belly. In Peruvian Amazonian forests it searches for prey from the middle to upper layers of the forest.
Its plumage is glossy green, with a black bill, rufous belly, and gray tail. The female has a white band on the throat.
In Peruvian Amazonia it forages from the understory to the mid-canopy in both seasonally flooded and terra firme forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.