Toco Toucan: Spying Around the Nest - (Ramphastos toco) Tucanuçu, Breeding season

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Channel: Fauna and Flora · 2016 · Pets & Animals

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#forestecosystems #tocotoucan #tucanuçu  - (Wild Bird - Nesting - Makes its nest in hollow trees, dead coconut trunks, in ravines or in termite mounds where they are safe. -  Habitats: They live in tropical forests, Atlantic forest, gallery forests, cerrado, savannas, wetlands, thickets, woodlands, secondary forests, plantations, orchards, caatinga and the Pantanal. The only species of the Ramphastidae family that does not remain exclusively in forests, it frequently flies over open fields, pastures and wide rivers; it likes to perch on tall trees. They often visit rural backyards with available fruit. - Brazilian Biodiversity!)

Toco Toucan. Scientific Name: Ramphastos toco, Brazilian Name: Tucanuçu and Tucano-toco. Order: Piciformes, Family: Ramphastidae. Diet: Omnivorous (fruits, insects, arthropods, small monkeys, but also usually plunders nests of other birds to devour eggs and chicks. Due to this characteristic, they are readily pursued by birds during the reproductive period. Geographic Distribution: It occurs in a large part of the Brazilian Territory. It also occurs in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.

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