{"id":556,"date":"2006-05-31T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/31\/chestnut-mandibled-toucans\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:00:22","slug":"chestnut-mandibled-toucans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/31\/chestnut-mandibled-toucans\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut-mandibled Toucans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the most conspicuous and amusing birds I saw in the Pacific lowland forests of Costa Rica were the brilliantly colored Chestnut-mandibled Toucans (Ramphastos swainsonii)<\/a>, also known as Tuc\u00e1n de Swainson in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\"Chestnut-mandibled<\/p>\n

Chestnut-mandibled Toucans are the second largest species of toucan, and only the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco)<\/a> is larger. I had only seen these birds perched or hopping about quietly in zoo cages before, so I had not realized how LOUD they are in the wild. A small flock of Chestnut-mandibled Toucans would call to each other from the treetops in the mornings and late afternoons with much head bobbing and wagging and tail flicking. Some of their calls are a series of shrieking yips, but their most characteristic calls are repeated shrieks that sound like “\u00a1Dios te d\u00e9!” or “God keep you!” in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\"Chestnut-mandibled<\/p>\n

Chestnut-mandibled Toucans are black with a yellow bib, a green ring around the eye, a white rump, red undertail coverts, blue legs and feet, and an up to 7.9 inch (20 cm) long chestnut-red and yellow bill.<\/p>\n

Chestnut-mandibled Toucans mainly feed on fruit, but they will also eat insects, small snakes and lizards, along with bird eggs and nestlings. I figured that they must be occasional nest raiders after I saw a flock of screeching Orange-chinned Parakeets (Brotogeris jugularis)<\/a> furiously attacking a fleeing Chestnut-mandibled Toucan. I couldn’t tell if the toucan was carrying anything because their spacious beaks have so much room to carry things in, but those parakeets sure were angry at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the most conspicuous and amusing birds I saw in the Pacific lowland forests of Costa Rica were the brilliantly colored Chestnut-mandibled Toucans (Ramphastos swainsonii), also known as Tuc\u00e1n de Swainson in Spanish. Chestnut-mandibled Toucans are the second largest species of toucan, and only the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) is larger. I had only… Read More → <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-costa-rican-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}