The Spot-billed Toucanet is found in south-east Brazil from south Bahia to Santa Catarina and adjacent Paraguay and Argentina.

The male shown here in photos 1, 2 and 4 shows the black head and underparts and the yellow ear-tufts. The upperparts and tail are olive-green while the bare skin round the eye is greeny-blue. The bill is ivory in colour with black vertical stripes and a yellowish tip.

It inhabits forest, gallery forest and palm groves. It eats mainly fruits of the palms and of Cecropia but probably also eats insects and small vertebrates.