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Toucanets

Spot Billed Toucanet

Selenidera maculirostris - Spot Billed Toucanet
Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Regua, Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Spot Billed Toucanet
Latin: Selenidera maculirostris
Other: Araçaru-poca (Br)• Tucancito de pico maculado, arasarí chico (Es)
Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: Brazil Atlantic Rainforest
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Above, a female (or juvenile?) Spot-billed Toucanet. Below a male.

Spot-billed Toucanets are readily identified by three or four dark marks on the upper bill. Seen on excursions from Regua and Serra dos Tucanos, in northern Rio de Janeiro state.

Below, male Spot-billed Toucanet, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil • 2011
Selenidera maculirostris - Spot Billed ToucanetMore photos...
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Gould's Toucanet

Selenidera gouldii - Gould's Toucanet
Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Rio Azul Lodge, Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Gould's Toucanet
Latin: Selenidera gouldii
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Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: S Amazonia
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I saw these Gould’s Toucanets accompanied by Curl-crested Aracaris at Rio Azul Lodge. Identifiable by their bill pattern: black on half the upper bill, yellow at tip, black line on lower bill. Females have light brown heads.More photos...
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Crimson Rumped Toucanet

Crimson Rumped Toucanet - Aulacorhynchus haematopygus
Copyright: monacoeye • Paz de las Aves, Ecuador, Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Crimson Rumped Toucanet
Latin: Aulacorhynchus haematopygus
Other: Tucánete Lomirrojo (Es)
Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: W Venezuela, Colombia, E Ecuador
Similar: Chestnut-tipped Toucanet

Crimson Rumped Toucanets seemed to be one of the most easily seen of the toucan family in Pichincha, northwest Ecuador. First seen at Santa Lucia, then visiting feeders at Paz de las Aves.

Crimson Rumped Toucanets are mostly green, with red bill, rump and tail tip. Base of bill is white.More photos...
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White Throated Toucanet

White Throated Toucanet - Aulacorhynchus albivitta
Copyright: monacoeye • San Isidro, Ecuador, Mar 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: White Throated Toucanet
Latin: Aulacorhynchus albivitta
Other: Tucán (Es) • split from Aulacorhynchus prasinus, Emerald Toucanet
Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: E, C Colombia, W Venezuela, E Ecuador
Similar: Chestnut-tipped Toucanet, Black-throated Toucanet

The guide at San Isidro Lodge called this an Emerald Toucanet, but the complex has now been split and this bird with a white, not blue, throat is now called the White-throated Toucanet by the IOC. I believe the other prasinus split is called the Black-throated Toucanet, which, as its name suggests, has a dark throat.More photos...
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Blue Throated Toucanet

Blue Throated Toucan - Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis
Copyright: monacoeye • Central Panama, April 2010 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Blue Throated Toucanet
Latin: Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis
Other: Split from A. prasinus, Emerald Toucanet
Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: Costa Rica to W Panama
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A beautiful bird to see first thing in the morning as you step out of the car in the highlands of El Valle de Anton in Panama. The only green toucan in Panama. Has blue throat.More photos...
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Saffron Toucanet

Saffron Toucanet - Pteroglossus bailloni
Photo copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Itatiaia, RJ • November 2009

Bird name: Saffron Toucanet
Latin: Pteroglossus bailloni
Other: Baillonius bailloni • Araçari-banana (Br) • Tucán banana (Es)
Family: RamphastidaeToucans, Toucanets
Range: SE South America

The photogenic Saffron Toucanet was a regular visitor to the fruit feeders at Hotel Ypê.More photos...
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Ramphastidae - Toucans

102c RamphastidaeToucans, Aracaris, Toucanets - IOC 2.8 2011

New World Barbets have been moved to their own families, Capitonidae and Semnornithidae.

Aulacorhynchus wagleri - Wagler's Toucanet - SW Mexico - split from A. prasinus;
Aulacorhynchus prasinus - Emerald Toucanet - E Mexico to Nicaragua
Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis - Blue-throated Toucanet - Costa Rica to W Panama - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus cognatus - Violet-throated Toucanet - E Panama, NW Colombia - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus lautus - Santa Marta Toucanet - N Colombia - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus griseigularis - Grey-throated Toucanet - C, W Colombia - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus albivitta - White-throated Toucanet - E, C Colombia, W Venezuela, E Ecuador - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus atrogularis - Black-throated Toucanet - C Ecuador to W Bolivia - split from A. prasinus
Aulacorhynchus sulcatus - Groove-billed Toucanet - NE, N Venezuela
Aulacorhynchus calorhynchus - Yellow-billed Toucanet - NE Colombia, NW Venezuela - split from A. sulcatus
Aulacorhynchus derbianus - Chestnut-tipped Toucanet - N Amazonia, S Colombia to C Bolivia, South America
Aulacorhynchus haematopygus - Crimson-rumped Toucanet - W Venezuela to E Ecuador
Aulacorhynchus huallagae - Yellow-browed Toucanet - E Peru
Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis - Blue-banded Toucanet - C Peru to SE Bolivia

Pteroglossus viridis - Green Aracari - NE Amazonia
Pteroglossus inscriptus - Lettered Aracari - W, S Amazonia
Pteroglossus bitorquatus - Red-necked Aracari - S Amazonia
Pteroglossus azara - Ivory-billed Aracari - NW Amazonia
Pteroglossus mariae - Brown-mandibled Aracari - SW Amazonia - split from P. azara
Pteroglossus aracari - Black-necked Aracari - NE, E South America
Pteroglossus castanotis - Chestnut-eared Aracari - W Amazonia to SE Brazil
Pteroglossus pluricinctus - Many-banded Aracari - NW Amazonia
Pteroglossus torquatus - Collared Aracari - Mexico to Venezuela
Pteroglossus sanguineus - Stripe-billed Aracari - W Colombia, NW Ecuador - split from P. torquatus
Pteroglossus erythropygius - Pale-mandibled Aracari - W Ecuador - split from P. torquatus
Pteroglossus frantzii - Fiery-billed Aracari - Costa Rica, Panama
Pteroglossus beauharnaesii - Curl-crested Aracari - W Amazonia
Pteroglossus bailloni - Saffron Toucanet - SE South America

Selenidera spectabilis - Yellow-eared Toucanet - Honduras to SW Colombia
Selenidera culik - Guianan Toucanet - NE Amazonia
Selenidera reinwardtii - Golden-collared Toucanet - W Amazonia
Selenidera nattereri - Tawny-tufted Toucanet - NC Amazonia
Selenidera gouldii - Gould's Toucanet - S Amazonia
Selenidera maculirostris - Spot-billed Toucanet - SE South America

Andigena hypoglauca - Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan - C Colombia to Peru
Andigena laminirostris - Plate-billed Mountain Toucan - SW Colombia to S Ecuador
Andigena cucullata - Hooded Mountain Toucan - SE Peru to C Bolivia
Andigena nigrirostris - Black-billed Mountain Toucan - W Venezuela to N Peru

Ramphastos dicolorus - Green-billed Toucan - SE South America (Red-breasted Toucan)
Ramphastos vitellinus - Channel-billed Toucan - Amazonia, E, SE Brazil
Ramphastos citreolaemus - Citron-throated Toucan - N Colombia, NW Venezuela - split from R. vitellinus
Ramphastos brevis - Choco Toucan - NW Colombia to SW Ecuador
Ramphastos sulfuratus - Keel-billed Toucan - E Mexico to NW Venezuela
Ramphastos toco - Toco Toucan - NE, C, SE South America
Ramphastos tucanus - White-throated Toucan - Amazonia
Ramphastos swainsonii - Chestnut-mandibled Toucan - SE Honduras to W Ecuador - split from R. ambiguus
Ramphastos ambiguus - Black-mandibled Toucan - W Venezuela to C Peru
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