Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies

. Their diet also consists of other types of butterflies and moths, dragonflies, and flying beetles.

What do Jacamar birds eat?

Rufous-tailed Jacamars are strictly insectivorous and eat flying insects such as butterflies, dragonflies, and wasps.

Is a Jacamar a omnivore?

Feeding ecology and diet

As an entirely insectivorous family, jacamars prefer large, showy, flying insects. Their diet consists of butterflies, moths, wasps, dragonflies, and flying beetles.