Western Red-necked Araçari - Pteroglossus bitorquatus sturmii

Western Red-necked Araçari Pteroglossus sturmii
(aka Pteroglossus bitorquatus sturmii)

Brazilian name: araçari-de-pescoço-vermelho

Brazil

The Red-necked Araçari is distributed in the south-west of the Amazon Basin in Brazil. 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.

The HBW and Birdlife International Checklist splits Red-necked Araçari into Western and Eastern species though most authorities still lump the two as Red-necked Araçari. P. sturmii has an all dark mandible while P. bitorquatus has a white base to the mandible. P. sturmii also has a broader yellow band on the breast.

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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