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Ramphastos tucanus cuvieri (Cuvier's Toucan)

Synonyms: Ramphastos cuvieri

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) is a near-passerine bird found throughout the Amazon in south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, southern and eastern Venezuela, northern and western Brazil, including the Amazon Basin's adjacent Tocantins-Araguaia River drainage, and the Guianas. It prefers tropical humid forest, but also occurs in woodland and locally in riverine forest within the Cerrado.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.618 lbs (734 g)

Ecoregions

Prey / Diet

Virola calophylla (virola)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ateles paniscus (black spider monkey)1
Penelope jacquacu (Spix's Guan)1
Pteroglossus beauharnaesii (Curl-crested Aracari)1
Selenidera reinwardtii (Golden-collared Toucanet)1
Trogon melanurus (Black-tailed Trogon)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Russo, SE 2003. Responses of dispersal agents to tree and fruit traits in Virola calophylla (Myristicaceae): Implications for selection Oecologia 136:80–87
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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