Red-breasted Toucan Ramphastos dicolorus
(aka Green-billed Toucan)
Brazilian name:
Tucano-de-bico-verde
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


The Red-breasted Toucan is distributed in south-central and south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northern Argentina. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image It is found in the Atlantic Rain Forest as well as in surrounding secondary growth and grassland with trees in the Pantanal.

The bill is green to green-yellow and upperparts are black except for the rump. The chin and breast are whitish-yellow with an orange centre while the lower breast, belly and vent are dark red.
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image
Red-breasted Toucan, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image
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