Birds of Ecuador

    PICIFORMES: Ramphastidae (Toucans)  
Genus: Aulacorhynchus (4 species, 11 worldwide)



White-throated Toucanet
White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta phaeolaemus)
La Romera, Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

White-throated Toucanet
White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta griseigularis) Immature
Parque Ecológico El Salado, Antioquia, Colombia
  Note immature's short bill.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

After much shuffling, this species now includes the similar Grey-throated Toucanet of the Pacific slope, and the somewhat different looking Santa Marta Toucanet.
Phaeolaemus race.
Bird with bill deterioration.

Black-throated Toucanet
Black-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus atrogularis)
Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Chestnut-tipped Toucanet
Chestnut-tipped Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus derbianus)
Old Loja-Zamora Highway, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.

Note chestnut tip to bill and tail.

Crimson-rumped Toucanet
Crimson-rumped Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus)
 
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A slightly larger toucanet found mostly on the western Andean slope.


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