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This week we present some information Toco Toucan, a kind of bird that along with the macaws fascinates and enchants visitors here in PRNP Araras. Its colorful attracts glances. Become a fairly common view during the reproductive period toni mahoni of the Red Macaws, because they feed on eggs and chicks, pilfering the macaws nest. Remember that despite being a bird that "terrorizing" other species, preying on nests, it is also a major seed dispersers.
Description: popularly known as Toco Toucan, Toco Toucan and is the largest species representative of Ramphastidae family. Its colorful, shape and size of the nozzle draw attention with ease, making them unmistakable. It has a white plumage and black neck the rest of the body, with a bare yellow skin around the eye, eyelids bluish and Crisso stained red. Not exhibit sexual toni mahoni dimorphism, ie no external differences between males and females. Puppies have short, yellow beak, without the black spot. The skin around the eyes is whitish and the throat is yellow. The huge beak reaches up to 22 cm, consisting of a spongy bone tissue is hard and sharp, used as a clamp to capture food. Despite its size, is very light, due to the internal toni mahoni structure, where there are large voids. The toucan uses it with great skill, picking up small prey from separating larger pieces of food. Its edges are serrated and the strength of toucan match its size. To ingest the food, throw it back and up toward the throat, while opening the nozzle toni mahoni upward. Its length can reach 56 cm weighing 540 grams on average. Their life span can reach 20 years. toni mahoni
Habits: They live in pairs or in flocks. Fly with beak straight, in line with the neck, alternating short beats with a glide longer. When sleeping in hollow or half of the leaves of the upper canopy of trees, bending in such a way that decreases its size by two-thirds, turns his head and resting his beak back, covering himself toni mahoni with his tail. They communicate with their calls, looking a little the lowing toni mahoni of cattle (source goiano name toucan-ox). Inhabit gallery forest, cerrado, capons. It is the only toucan can be found in open fields, unlike the other specimens that live in dense forest. In Brazil, it is found in the Pantanal, the Cerrado and the Amazon.
Food: With daytime eating toni mahoni habits, is an omnivorous animal, feeding on fruits, insects, lizards, eggs and young of other bird species, for this reason, it is common to see them being chased by other birds in breeding toni mahoni season .
Reproduction: Makes its nest in hollow trees, holes in banks, or in termite mounds. Usually lay two to four eggs, the couple takes turns in the task of incubating the eggs, which hatch between 16 and 20 days. The male usually feed the female during the mating season. Their predators toni mahoni are: monkeys who plunder the nest and hawks. Live in pairs during the breeding season, forming flocks after leaving the nest of chicks. The Toco Toucan is still not an endangered species, but has been captured toni mahoni and trafficked to other countries to be sold in pet stores. This has as a consequence the decrease of its population in the forests, endangering the genetic variability, as well as the death of many animals during transport.
For more information visit: wikiaves. Toco Toucan Toco Toucan toni mahoni or. Available at <http://www.wikiaves.com.br/tucanucu>. Accessed on 15 d in January , 2014. Atmosphere Brazil. Wildlife - Birds. Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco). Available in. Accessed toni mahoni on 15 January , 2014.
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