White-throated Toucan
Ramphastos tucanus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,964
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-throated toucan”.