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Yellow-eared Toucanet - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by stephennj
Costa Rica, January 2008
Selenidera spectabilis

Identification

36–38 cm (14-15 in)
Black underside except for yellow on flanks, chestnut thighs, and red undertail coverts. Upperside olive-green with slaty grey tail.
Male has mostly black head with yellow on auriculars and bare skin around eyes green with yellow and blue
Female lacks the yellow on auriculars and have a chestnut crown and rear neck.
Bill dark; upper mandible has a pale area above a diagonal from the lower tip to the upper base.

Distribution

Female
Photo by Birdingcraft
Quebrada Gonzalez, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica, January 2009

Central and South America:
Central America: found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia and northern Ecuador

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

Habitat

Moist lowland forests, forest edges and montanes. Also secondary forests.

Behaviour

They often stay in dense vegetation.

Diet

These birds like the fruit of certain palm species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2015)
  4. Birdforum member personal observations

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