The Blue-cheeked Jacamar has glossy green upperparts and chestnut underparts, with blue cheeks and crown. In humid lowland forest, it feeds on beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.
Its upperparts are glossy green and its underparts chestnut. Blue marks the cheeks, malar area, and crown, while the bare eye-ring is yellow.
It uses undisturbed seasonally flooded forest and forest interior, feeding on beetles, wasps, bees, ants, and flies.
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