Toucan habitatmap. Toucans are very sociable animals that spend part of their lives in trees nesting in their holes and moving through their branches. The toco toucan is usually found in semi open areas with limited tree cover including savannah woodlands and plantations and are endemic in the cerrado in brazil. Within the rainforest these birds inhabit the canopy or the.
Toucans love rainforest particularly tropical rainforest in warm regions with lots of rainfall. A toucan is a popular pet and is a familiar commercial mascot. Even though there are many different species of toucans they all live in similar types of habitat.
They are from the ramphastidae family with close relations to american barbets. The toco toucan the largest and best known toucan species is at home in south americas tropical forests. Although some species of the toucans tend to live alone most live in pairs or flocks of six.
Toucans are non migratory birds and seldom fly far. They are extremely noisy creatures and build their nests high in the hollows of trees that have been abandoned by woodpeckers. Toucans vary in size with 40 different types ranging from 7 inches tall to over 2 feet tall.
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. 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 toucans are due to their unique appearance among the most popular and well known birds in the world.
The colored areas of the following map show the distribution of the toucan in the world. Their colorful bills come in a rainbow of colors. Habitat of the toucan.
The family further has about five genera and a total of 40 species. Map of the distribution of toucans in the world. They actually prefer semi open areas with scattered trees.
Their largest numbers are in southern brazil and down into northern argentina but they can be seen as far north as the amazon river basin. Toco toucans are found solely in south america. They may be black blue brown green red white yellow or a combination of these colors.
Its oversized colorful bill has made it one of the worlds most popular birds. The toco toucan is an arboreal animal spending most of its life in the canopies of trees. Some species of these birds live only in mountainous regions.
For the most part toucans dont excavate nesting cavities although some green toucanets do. Tocos are the only type of toucans that do not primarily live in the rainforest.