Toucans
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Pet Birds
Chestnut-mandibled Toucans
The Chestnut-mandibled Toucans or Swainson€™s Toucans (Ramphastos swainsonii) are the second largest Toucans in the world – being only slightly smaller than the Toco Toucans (Ramphastos toco). Their most obvious…
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Birds
Toucans Diet
A Toucans natural diet consists primarily of a wide range of different fruits; thus they play an extremely important ecological role as vectors for seed dispersal of fruiting trees. Toucans…
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Birds
Choco Toucans
The Choco Toucans (Ramphastos brevis) are South American toucans that occur naturally in the humid lowland and foothill forests on the Pacific slope of western Colombia and western Ecuador. Its…
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Birds
Keel-billed Toucans
The Keel-billed Toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) are also known as Sulfur-breasted> Toucans or Rainbow-billed Toucans. These colorful South American toucans have distinctive oversized, multi-colored bills for which they were named. Even…
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Birds
Toucan’s Bill
How heavy is that bill, and what do they eat with it … Surprisingly light for its size, in some larger species the bill is equal in length to the…
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Birds
Grey-breasted Mountain-toucans
The Grey-breasted Mountain-toucans (Andigena hypoglauca) is a toucan found in humid highland forest in the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Two subspecies have been identified – the nominate…
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Guianan Toucanets
The Guianan Toucanets or Guyana Toucanets (Selenidera culik or Selenidera piperivora) are toucans found in the lowland forests of northwestern Brazil (north of the Amazon – from the lower Negro…
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