ABOUT THIS SPECIES
KEEL-BILLED TOUCAN – (Species Account Weblog #117)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Piciformes – Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans and Honeyguides
- FAMILY: Ramphastidae – Toucans,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Ramphastos sulfuratus
The Keel-billed Toucan happens in tropical lowland evergreen and secondary forests from southern Mexico, the place it’s the solely giant toucan, south by way of Central America to northern Colombia and excessive northwestern Venezuela. Its bizarrely patterned inexperienced, orange, purple, and blue invoice is diagnostic. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Keel-billed Toucans in most low to mid-elevation areas from Rancho Naturalista, to Punta Leona, Sarapiqui and Arenal.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by nations.
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