The Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda), is a species of jacamar which breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador. This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub. The two to four rufous-spotted white eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite mound. The rufous-tailed jacamar's call is a sharp pee-op, and the song a high thin peeo-pee-peeo-pee-pe-pe, ending in a trill.