White-throated toucan

Not to be confused with White-throated toucanet.

White-throated toucan
Ramphastos t. tucanus at Tropical Birdland, Leicestershire
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Ramphastos
Species:
R. tucanus
Binomial name
Ramphastos tucanus
Subspecies

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A recording of Red-Billed toucan at aviary.
At first this may resemble a Cuvier's toucan, R. t. cuvieri, but a closer look reveals a brownish patch on the upper part of the mandible, identifying it as a tucanus-cuvieri intergrade.
Red-billed toucan
Ramphastos t. tucanus
Red-billed toucan in captivity

The white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) is a near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae found in South America throughout the Amazon Basin including the adjacent Tocantins and Araguaia River drainage. It prefers tropical humid forest, but also occurs in woodland and locally in riverine forest within cerrado.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Red-billed Toucan Ramphastos tucanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22682153A211269670. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cuvier's Toucan Ramphastos cuvieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22682159A92932353. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22682159A92932353.en. Retrieved 5 January 2023.