Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Ramphastidae > Andigena > Andigena nigrirostrisAndigena nigrirostris (Black-billed Mountain Toucan)The black-billed mountain toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in humid highland forests in the Andes of western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru. It is the only mountain-toucan with a white throat. Despite its name, only the nominate subspecies has an entirely black bill, while both A. n. occidentalis and A. n. spilorhyncha have bills that are chestnut and black. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.72155 EDGE Score: 1.74424 |
Adult Weight [1] | 351 grams |  | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 30 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 80 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 20 % |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Alto Quindío |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bosques del Oriente de Risaralda |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bosques Montanos del Sur de Antioquia |
Colombia |
A1, A2 |
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Cerro La Judía |
Colombia |
A1, A2 |
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Cordillera de Huacamayos-San Isidro-Sierra Azul |
Ecuador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cuenca del Río Toche |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lagunas Bombona y Vancouver |
Colombia |
A1, A2 |
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Montañas de Zapote-Najda |
Ecuador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional El Tamá |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3, A4ii |
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Parque Nacional Guaramacal |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Llanganates |
Ecuador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Munchique |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Puracé |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Podocarpus |
Ecuador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Sangay |
Ecuador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Natural Regional Páramo del Duende |
Colombia |
A1 |
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Refugio de Fauna Silvestre y Reserva de Pesca Parque Nacional Dinira |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reserva Hidrográfica, Forestal y Parque Ecológico de Río Blanco |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reserva Natural Ibanasca |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reserva Natural Semillas de Agua |
Colombia |
A1, A2 |
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Reserva Natural Tambito |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reservas Comunitarias de Roncesvalles |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Serranía de los Churumbelos |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Serranía de los Paraguas |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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