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Photo © byReini
Laguna del Lagarto Lodge, Costa Rica, February 2005

Pteroglossus torquatus

Includes Stripe-billed Aracari; Pale-mandibled Aracari

Identification

Pale-mandibled Aracari, ssp erythropygius
Photo © by mmdnje
Buenaventura, El Oro, Ecuador, 8 December 2009

41cm

Dark olive-green upperparts
Bright yellow underparts
Black head and chest
Red rump, upper tail and collar
Round black spot in centre of breast
Red-tinted black band across belly
Chestnut thighs
Bare black facial skin
Yellow iris
Dull yellow upper mandible with black saw-tooth pattern
Black lower mandible, pale in erythropygius
Green legs

Juvenile: duller

Brownish-green upperparts
Pale yellow underparts
Black head
Paler red rump
Indistinct breast spot, belly band and bill pattern

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru

Lowlands and foothills of Caribbean slope, rarer on Pacific slope

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]

P. t. torquatus:

Tropical southern Mexico to north-western Colombia

P. t. erythrozonus:

Yucatán Peninsula to Belize and Petén of north-eastern Guatemala

P. t. nuchalis:

North-eastern Colombia (Santa Marta Mountains) and mountains of northern Venezuela

P. t. sanguineus:

Eastern Panama and northern Colombia south to northwestern Ecuador (northern Esmeraldas and adjacent Imbabura) - Stripe-billed Aracari

P. t. erythropygius:

Western Ecuador (western Esmeraldas south to El Oro) and northwestern Peru (eastern Tumbes) - Pale-mandibled Aracari

Stripe-billed and Pale-mandibled Aracari are recognized as full species by Gill and Donsker.

Habitat

Middle to upper levels of tropical evergreen forest, semi-open and forest edges, coastal woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

While this species is a fruit eater with a wide variety of fruit in their diet, they also consume significantly sized insects and vertebrates of a small size.

In addition, they eat the hatched young and eggs of other species of birds.

Breeding

They nest in a bare cavity or old woodpecker nest. The 3 white eggs and young are cared for by both sexes for 16 days. They fledge after about 6 weeks.

Vocalisation

Call: a loud, sharp pseek, or peeseek.

References

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/
Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Avibase
Wikipedia

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Collared Aracari. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Collared_Aracari

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 ==Behaviour==
 ====Diet====
-The diet includes mainly fruit, but some insects, lizards, bird eggs, and other small prey are taken.
+While this species is a fruit eater with a wide variety of fruit in their diet, they also consume significantly sized insects and vertebrates of a small size.
+In addition, they eat the hatched young and eggs of other species of birds.
 ====Breeding====
 They nest in a bare cavity or old woodpecker nest. The 3 white eggs and young are cared for by both sexes for 16 days.  They fledge after about 6 weeks.