Description: An attractive small toucan of tropical lowland forest and edge.
Common Name: Pteroglossus torquatus
Family: Tucan
Habitats: Small flocks, usually consisting of 6-15 birds, move through the forest with a rapid direct flight.
Range: It breeds from southern Mexico (North America) to Panama; also Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
Usually found in small groups moving through the canopy of fruiting trees or seen flying, one at a time, across clearings and between trees. Flight rather direct and fast, when long-tailed and long-billed shape is distinctive. Note the yellow body with red and black markings, and the serrated pattern on the big bill.
