The Blue-cheeked Jacamar is found across southern Amazonia, from eastern Peru to east Amazonian Brazil, where it inhabits the interior of lowland forest, both terra firme and seasonally flooded, and in some areas appears to move into areas of várzea forest only during the high-water season. From other southern Amazonian jacamars with largely rufous underparts, this species should be easily distinguished by the yellow lower mandible and the bluish head and neck sides, although these features migh