Yellow-ridged Toucan Ramphastos culminatus
(aka Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus culminatus)

Yellow-ridged Toucan, Cordillera Escalera, San Martin, Peru, September 2018 - click for larger image Cordillera Escalera, San Martin, Peru
September 2018

The Yellow-ridged Toucan is distributed from the eastern foothills of the Andes to much of the Amazon Basin and into central Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

Yellow-ridged Toucan, Cordillera Escalera, San Martin, Peru, September 2018 - click for larger image Most authorities treat it as a subspecies of Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus culminatus but Birdlife International regard it as a good species despite a degree of hybridisation.

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