{"id":839,"date":"2008-01-23T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2008\/01\/23\/blue-throated-toucanet\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T19:58:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T02:58:52","slug":"blue-throated-toucanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2008\/01\/23\/blue-throated-toucanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-throated Toucanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue-throated Toucanet (<em>Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis<\/em>) is a small, green Toucan (Family Ramphastidae) found in the middle elevation forests and mountain cloud forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Blue-throated Toucanets used to be considered a subspecies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Aulacorhynchus_prasinus.html\">Emerald Toucanet (A. prasinus)<\/a>, but they are now considered to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itis.gov\/servlet\/SingleRpt\/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&#038;search_value=685716\">separate species<\/a>. I observed this Blue-throated Toucanet in the misty, 7000 foot (2134 m) elevation cloud forest in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2008\/January\/Aulacorhynchus-caeruleogul.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis)\" title=\"Blue-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis)\" width=\"420\" height=\"600\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like Emerald Toucanets, Blue-throated Toucanets are mostly green with a chestnut-colored crissum (area under the base of the tail) and a large bill with a yellow and black upper mandible and a black lower mandible. Despite their similarities, Blue-throated Toucanets are easily distinguished from Emerald Toucanets, not only by their range, but also by their distinctive sapphire blue throat.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-throated Toucanets feed mainly on fruits, but they will also eat insects, flowers, small lizards, and the eggs and nestlings of other birds, such as those of <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/06\/03\/resplendent-quetzals\/\">Resplendent Quetzals (Pharomachrus mocinno)<\/a>. Like Resplendent Quetzals, Blue-throated Toucanets nest in tree cavities, usually the abandoned holes of woodpeckers. Although Blue-throated Toucanets are usually found in small flocks, this particular Blue-throated Toucanet appeared to be all alone. However, given that the leaf green plumage of Blue-throated Toucanets makes them surprisingly difficult to spot amidst the trees, there may have been unseen others nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis) is a small, green Toucan (Family Ramphastidae) found in the middle elevation forests and mountain cloud forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Blue-throated Toucanets used to be considered a subspecies of the Emerald Toucanet (A. prasinus), but they are now considered to be a separate species. I observed this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2008\/01\/23\/blue-throated-toucanet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/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-839","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}