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The toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) is a species of bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is the largest species of toucan and has a distinctive appearance, with a black body, a white throat, chest and uppertail-coverts, and red undertail-coverts. Its most conspicuous feature is its massive beak, which is yellow-orange with a black base and ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population Red-breasted toucan. R. dicolorus (Linnaeus, 1766) Southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina LC Unknown [32] Channel-billed toucan. R. vitellinus [l] [m] Lichtenstein, M. H. C., 1823
Toucans range in size from the lettered aracari (Pteroglossus inscriptus), at 130 g (4.6 oz) and 29 cm (11 in), to the toco toucan (Ramphastos toco), at 680 g (1.50 lb) and 63 cm (25 in). Their bodies are short (of comparable size to a crow's) and compact. The tail is rounded and varies in length, from half the length to the whole length of the ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Red-breasted toucan Ramphastos dicolorus Linnaeus, 1766: Eastern Brazil, Pantanal of Bolivia, eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Channel-billed toucan Ramphastos vitellinus Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823
Toco toucan; From scientific name of a bird: This is a redirect from a scientific name of a bird (or group of birds) to a vernacular ("common") ...
Ramphastos toco (Toco toucan) toucan: Guarani: Toco derives from tucá or tucán, the Guarani word for a toucan, perhaps meaning "bone-nose". A doublet of toucan. [227] Salal (Gaultheria shallon) heather: Lower Chinook: From sálal (the local name for the plant), via Chinook Jargon. [228] [229] [230]
Ramphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae . [ 1 ] However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic with regard to toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.
The keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), also known as sulfur-breasted toucan, keel toucan, or rainbow-billed toucan, is a colorful Latin American member of the toucan family. It is the national bird of Belize. [3] The species is found in tropical jungles from southern Mexico to Ecuador.