- CHARACTERISTICS
- They can reach up to 52cm in length.
They have a bill that can grow up to one third of the total body size.
Females and males have the same colouring but the males are a little bigger than the females.
- DIET
- Fruits, but they also consume eggs, insects, lizards and tree frogs.
- REPRODUCTION
- They make their nests in holes in trees and lay 2 to 4 white eggs.
They can lay up to 2 to 3 clutches a year.
Both parents share egg incubation responsibilities and feeding duties for the newborn when they hatch from their eggs.
The babies are born after 16 to 20 days of incubation.
- CURIOSITIES
- In flight, the toucan moves its wings quickly and then it just glides. It cannot fly long stretches, and is more agile jumping from branch to branch.
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- NAME
- Keel-billed Toucan
- HABITAT
- South of Mexico through to North of Colombia and Venezuela.
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Ramphastos sulfuratus
- SPICE
- Poultry
- DIET
- Omnivorous
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