Red-necked Araçari - Pteroglossus bitorquatus

Red-necked Araçari (Pteroglossus bitorquatus)

Brazilian name: araçari-de-pescoço-vermelho

Brazil

The Red-necked Araçari is distributed from the mouth of the river Amazon south-west to Rondônia and Mato Grosso and into adjacent areas of Bolivia. It is found in forest and in gallery forest in cerrado habitat.

It eats fruit and the first 3 pictures here were taken on a fruiting tree at the edge of the clearing at Cristalino Lodge. It probably also eats eggs and nestlings like its congeners.

Photos 1 to 4 are of the sub-species P. b. sturmii which has an all dark mandible. The other two sub-species have a white base to the mandible as can be seen in the photos of the nominate sub-species in photos 5 and 6. P. b. sturmii also has a broader yellow band on the breast.

There is an illustration in HBW, Volume 7, Page 262.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto .

Red-necked Araçari, Cristalino Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image

Red-necked Araçari, Caxiuanã, Pará, Brazil, November 2005 - click for larger image

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