The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.
Its upperparts are green, with a metallic blue-green crown; the throat and chest are green, and the underparts and undertail are rufous. The bill is black, and females have ochre underparts. Some southeastern birds may have a white chin.
It inhabits riverine forest from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil, and also uses cloud forest, edges, and secondary growth near water. Its diet is poorly documented; flying insects are considered likely based on related jacamars.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.