Channel-billed Toucan
Ramphastos vitellinus
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-20 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Small Flock
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- South America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Uncommon
About
The channel-billed toucan is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and in tropical South America as far south as southern Brazil and central Bolivia. Unlike most toucans, this species has no tail, instead having a long, slender body.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Ramphastidae
- Genus
- Ramphastos
- Species
- Ramphastos vitellinus