White-throated toucan
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The white-throated toucan 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 prefer
White throated Toucan
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.
Ramphastos t. tucanus
In captivity
Toco toucan
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The toco toucan 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-cov
White-throated toucan
…16.8 cm (5.2 to 6.6 in), and the tarsus is 4.5 to 5.6 cm (1.8 to 2.2 in). The only species of toucan that surpasses the white-throated in size is the toco toucan, however the R. t. cuvieri subspecies of white-throated red billed toucan appears to perhaps be even heavier than the Toco species. It has black plumage…
006 Toco toucan in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent
Adult (left) and juvenile toucan
A partially leucistic toco toucan
Toco toucan flying in the Brazilian Pantanal