Groove Billed Toucanet

Information about Groove Billed Toucanet

Groove-billed Toucanet

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Ramphastidae
Genus:	Aulacorhynchus
Species:	*A. sulcatus*

Binomial name

Aulacorhynchus sulcatus
(Swainson, 1820)

The Groove-billed Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in mountains of northern Colombia and northern Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical and upper tropical humid forest and woodland, occasionally also occurring in gardens. It includes the Yellow-billed Toucanet (A. sulcatus calorhynchus), which is sometimes considered a separate species.

It has a total length ca. 35 cm (14 in). It is, as other members of the genus Aulacorhynchus, mainly green. The throat is white (or pale bluish in the subspecies A. s. erythrognathus) and the ocular skin is blue. The bill is black with maroon markings, but the maroon is replaced by yellow in A. s. calorhynchus. This distinctive subspecies, which is found in the western part of the species' range, is sometimes considered a separate species, the Yellow-billed Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus calorhynchus, Gould, 1874), but it is vocally similar to the other subspecies and hybrids are known from the region where it comes into contact with A. s. sulcatus.

It is generally fairly common in its range, and therefore considered Least Concern by BirdLife International. It occurs in several protected areas such as the Henri Pittier National Park in Venezuela.

Source

BirdLife International 2004. Aulacorhynchus sulcatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
Restall, R., Rodner, C., and Lentino, M. (2006). Birds of South America. Vol. 1. Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-7242-0

External links

Groove-billed Toucanet on the Internet Bird Collection
Photo-High Res; Article tropicalbirding.com
Goove-billed Toucanet photo gallery VIREO

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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Piciformes
Meyer & Wolf, 1810

Families
Galbulidae
Bucconidae
Capitonidae
Ramphastidae
Picidae
Indicatoridae
For prehistoric taxa, see text

Six families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes
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Ramphastidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

Andigena
Aulacorhynchus
Pteroglossus
Ramphastos
Selenidera

Toucans are near passerine birds from the neotropics.
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Aulacorhynchus

Aulacorhynchus is a genus of bird in the Ramphastidae family. With a total length of 30-40 cm (12-16 in), they are relatively small toucans, and all are mainly green.
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William John Swainson FLS, FRS (October 8, 1789 - December 6, 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.

Swainson was born in Dover Place, St.
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Motto
"Libertad y Orden" (Spanish)
"Liberty and Order"
Anthem
Oh, Gloria Inmarcesible!
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Motto
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Anthem
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo (Spanish)
"Glory to the Brave People"
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The subtropics are the zones of the Earth immediately north and south of the tropic zone, which is bounded by the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, at latitude 23.5 Â° north and south.
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tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 23Â°30' (23.5Â°) N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23Â°30' (23.5Â°) S latitude.
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Henri Pittier National Park is the oldest of Venezuela's national parks and is famous for its birdlife. Its eco-systems vary with altitude. The park was re-named Henri Pittier in recognition of a Swiss biologist who was instrumental in its foundation.
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