Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)

The keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) is a colorful Latin American member of the toucan family. The bird is also known as sulfur-breasted toucan and rainbow-billed toucan
The keel-billed toucan, the national bird of Belize, can be found from Southern Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia.
It roosts in the canopies of tropical, subtropical, and lowland rainforests, up to altitudes of 1,900 m, where it may be seen in loose troops of up to 6 - 12 birds.
The keel-billed toucans ranges in length from 42 to 55 cm, including its famous long beak. Their large and colourful beak is 12 to 15 cm, which is actually a third of its total length. While the bill seems large and cumbersome, it is in fact a spongy, hollow bone covered in keratin, a very light and hard protein.
The bill is mainly yellowish green with a reddish tip and orange sides, and a black band along the base of the bill. The plumage of the keel-billed toucans is mainly black with a yellow neck and chest.
Males and females look identical except that males may be slightly larger than the females.
The toucans usually eat fruits. However, they also eat small birds, small reptiles, insects, and eggs.

De zwavelborsttoekan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) is een opvallende gekleurde vogel uit de familie van de toekans (Ramphastidae) die leeft van Venezuela en Colombia tot Zuid-Mexico.
De zwavelborsttoekan is de nationale vogel van Belize.
Zijn natuurlijke habitat bestaat uit tropisch bos.
De zwavelborsttoekan meet inclusief snavel 42 tot 55 cm.
De snavel apart heeft een lengte van 12 tot 15 cm, wat een derde van de lengte van zijn hele lijf uitmaakt.
Het mannetje weegt gemiddeld 500 gr, het vrouwtje 380 gr.
Hoewel de snavel erg groot is, weegt hij slechts weinig: de snavel is hol en is gemaakt van keratine, een licht, hard eiwit.
Het verenkleed is zwart, met uitzondering van de gele borst en zijkop. De poten hebben een blauwe kleur; de staart heeft aan het uiteinde rode veren. Het grootste deel van de snavel is groen, met aan de zijkant oranje; het uiteinde is paarsrood.
Net als de meeste andere soorten toekans, leven zwavelborsttoekans in kleine familiegroepen van 6 tot 12 dieren.
Ze leven nauwelijks solitair. Een karakteristiek gedragselement is het zich laten voeren van fruit door een andere toekan. Zwavelborsttoekans voeden zich vooral met fruit, maar ook met insecten, eieren, kleine vogels, hagedissen of boomkikkers.
Deze foto is gemaakt in Ouwehands Dierenpark in Rhenen.
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Taken in: Holland / Provincie Utrecht / Laareind (show map)

Taken on: July 10, 2020

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