Male toucan bird. The toco toucan pronunciation. Toko too kun or toko tookan is a south american bird famous for its enormous colorful beak and flaunts the largest bill with respect to body size of all birdsspread almost all across the continents rainforest area this species is the largest member of the toucan family and is a center of attraction in innumerable zoos across the world. Toucans t u k ae n uk.
Toucans make a croaking growling and barking sounds while mountain toucans a genus of birds in the family ramphastidae make braying sounds like a donkey. The female keel billed toucan will lay 14 white eggs in a natural or already made tree cavity. Because toucans spend a large portion of time in the trees this helps the birds to stay on the branches of the trees and jump from one branch to another.
The male and female share in the caring of the eggs both taking turns incubating. Male toucans have a much lower voice than female toucans. Unlike many other varieties of bird such as ducks and peacocks both genders of toco toucans share the same coloring general size and indentifying characteristics.
Toucans are arboreal and typically lay 221 white eggs in their nests. The toucan is colorful bird that is medium sized and has a large beak for its size the longest beak in the world when taking into consideration the size of the beak and the size of the bird. The toco toucan the largest and best known toucan species is at home in south americas tropical forests.
They are from the ramphastidae family with close relations to american barbets. Toco toucans are not a sexually dimorphic species of bird. Its oversized colorful bill has made it one of the worlds most popular birds.
K e n are members of the neotropical near passerine bird family ramphastidaethe ramphastidae are most closely related to the american barbetsthey are brightly marked and have large often colorful billsthe family includes five genera and over forty different species. For most species of toucan the male and female look very similar. Some say that you can determine the sex of a toucan by looking at the shape of the beak with males having longer and more curved.
Or to explain it in laybirds terms there is no visual difference between male and female toucans.