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White-throated Toucan

Ramphastos tucanus

Description:

Like other toucans, the White-throated Toucan is brightly marked and has a huge bill. It has black plumage with a white throat and breast bordered below with a narrow red line. The rump is bright yellow and the crissum is red. The bare skin around the eye is blue. The bill has a yellow tip, upper ridge and base of the upper mandible, and the base of the lower mandible is blue. The rest of the bill is mainly black in R. t. cuvieri and mainly reddish-brown in R. t. tucanus, with intergrades showing a mixed coloration. Males are larger and longer-billed than females, but otherwise the sexes are alike. Juveniles are noticeably shorter-billed, more sooty-black, and have duller plumage. [Wikipedia]

Habitat:

Found throughout the Amazon in south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, southern and eastern Venezuela, northern and western Brazil, including the Amazon Basin's adjacent Tocantins-Araguaia River drainage, and the Guianas. It prefers tropical humid forest, but also occurs in woodland and locally in riverine forest within the Cerrado.

Notes:

This really cute toucan was found by my twin cousins ​​on a farm (Fazenda Sanjo) on the island of Marajó inside the Amazon forest. He was found injured and was treated by the owner of the farm. Now he was used to and live by the farm. [Portuguese] Esse lindo tucano foi encontrado pelas minhas primas gêmeas em uma fazenda (Fazenda Sanjo) na ilha do marajó na floresta amazônia. Ele foi encontrado machucado e foi tratado pela dona da fazenda. Agora ele ficou acostumado e vive pela fazenda. Tucano-grande-de-papo-branco [Brazil]

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Pará, Brazil

Spotted on Dec 1, 2012
Submitted on Dec 2, 2012

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