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
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 Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus
Amazon basin seen from the ISS
Aerial view of part of the Amazon rainforest
Jaguar in the area of Miranda near Amazon basin