Birds of Brazil

    PICIFORMES: Ramphastidae (Toucans)  
Genus: Pteroglossus (10 species, 14 worldwide)


Black-necked Aracari
Black-necked Aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)
Venezuela  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Ivory-billed Aracari
Ivory-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus azara)
Zoo, Peru  
   
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Comes in two forms, one with a mostly yellow bill, and one with an ivory-colored bill with brown on the upper mandible (HBW). Found north of the Amazon river. The more southern Brown-mandibled Aracari has now been split out.

Saffron Toucanet
Saffron Toucanet (Pteroglossus bailloni) Near Threatened
Parque das Aves, Foz do Iguazu, Brazil  
   
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Curl-crested Aracari
Curl-crested Aracari (Pteroglossus beauharnaisii)
 
   
Photograph by Lonnie Huffman     Copyright and usage info


Red-necked Aracari
Red-necked Aracari (Pteroglossus bitorquatus) Male Endangered
Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.


Chestnut-eared Aracari
Chestnut-eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis castanotis)
Las Unamas Natural Reserve, San Martin, Meta, Colombia  
   
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Lettered Aracari
Lettered Aracari (Pteroglossus inscriptus inscriptus)
Bolivia
  The inscriptus subspecies has a light-colored lower mandible, and is found in the eastern Amazon and north Bolivia.
   
Photograph by Graham Ekins   © All Rights Reserved.

Lettered Aracari
Lettered Aracari (Pteroglossus inscriptus humboldti) Male
Villavicencio, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

This species has two forms, sometimes considered different species. Humboldt's Aracari, found in the Andean foothills from Colombia to Bolivia as well as the western Amazon basin, has an all black lower mandible.

Brown-mandibled Aracari
Brown-mandibled Aracari (Pteroglossus mariae)
Beruri, Amazonas, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Hector Bottai     Copyright and usage info

Split from the Ivory-billed Aracari and found south of the Amazon river. Note brown lower mandible.

Many-banded Aracari
Many-banded Aracari (Pteroglossus pluricinctus)
Sani Lodge, Sucumbíos, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.


Green Aracari
Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis) Male
  The back is black with a greenish hue.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Green Aracari
Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis) Female
 
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.



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