Pteroglossus torquatus

The Collared Aracari, Pteroglossus torquatus or Collared aracari, is a medium-sized climbing bird.

The tufted toucan is also the noisiest forest bird, producing loud rumbles, trumpets, and screeches. Its nest is built in a hole high in a tree. When eating, always peck the food with the tip of the mouth first, then tilt the neck, throw the food upward, and then open the big mouth to accurately put the food into the throat, without having to go through the long mouth and spend time in the process of "swallowing". The tufted toucan is omnivorous and feeds on fruits, seeds and insects.

The tufted toucan nests in tree cavities and sometimes preys on the nests of young birds, eating eggs and chicks. - Lay 2 to 4 eggs. Smooth white eggs are piled in unlined holes and hatch in about 16 days. The hatchlings are completely naked, take at least three weeks to open their eyes, and begin to live their lives about 45 days after hatching.

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The tufted toucan is found in Central America (located between North and South America, Including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.), South America (including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falkland Islands).
The tufted Toucan inhabits warm forests and marginal areas, preferring treetops.

The tufted toucan looks a little like a hornbill. The upper body is black or dark green, the waist is dark red, the head is black, the lower body is mainly yellow, there are several black or red markings, forming a large chest spot. The long beak appears in three different colors, black, yellow, and a little red. The margin of the beak is usually clearly serrated, black or ivory in appearance, and looks somewhat like a tooth. Despite its large beak, the bird weighs less than 30 grams. The structure of the mouth bone is very special, it is not a dense entity, the outside is a layer of crust, through the middle of extremely fine fibers, porous spongy tissue, filled with air, so that it does not feel heavy pressure.
Tufted toucan is one of the few species of toucan with distinct sexual differences; At four weeks of age, chicks can be sexed by their plumage.