About the Blue-banded Toucanet
The blue-banded toucanet is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
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The blue-banded toucanet is 40 to 44 cm (16 to 17 in) long and weighs 173 to 257 g (6.1 to 9.1 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults have a bluish horn-colored bill. Their plumage is mostly green with a red rump, white throat, a diffuse blue band across the chest, and greenish-yellow undertail coverts. They have a blue and white supercilium and some pale blue below the eye. Their eye can be any color from white through yellow to reddish brown and is surrounded by bare dark grayish skin. Their tail is mostly green with rusty tips on the central feathers. Voice: The blue-banded toucanet's song is "a series of barking, growling, variable notes, 'kunnk' to 'krakk'". It also makes "various rattle calls, 'kyak' yelps, a 'kra-a-a' and 'gek-ek-ek' compound notes."
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Where the Blue-banded Toucanet lives
When to see the Blue-banded Toucanet
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Chestnut-tipped ToucanetAulacorhynchus derbianusThe chestnut-tipped toucanet is 33 to 41 cm (13 to 16 in) long and weighs 141 to 262 g (5.0 to 9.2 oz).
Groove-billed ToucanetAulacorhynchus sulcatusThe groove-billed toucanet is 33 to 37 cm (13 to 15 in) long and weighs 130 to 200 g (4.6 to 7.1 oz).
Tepui ToucanetAulacorhynchus whitelianusThe tepui toucanet is 33 to 41 cm (13 to 16 in) long and weighs 117 to 160 g (4.1 to 5.6 oz).
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