Bird Guide

Black-billed Mountain Toucan vs Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan

Black-billed Mountain Toucan (Andigena nigrirostris)

Black-billed Mountain Toucan

Andigena nigrirostris

Large350 gForest

The three subspecies of black-billed mountain toucan have almost the same plumage. They have a black cap and nape and bronzy upperparts with a pale yellow rump. Their tail is dark slate with chestnut tips on the central two or three pairs of feathers. Their face and throat are white becoming pale blue on the breast; their thighs are chestnut and their undertail coverts are red. Bare skin surrounds their eye; it is pale blue before it and yellow or orange behind. Subspecies A. n. occidentalis' plumage differs from that of the other two only by having darker chestnut thighs.

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Sonogram of the Black-billed Mountain Toucan
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Sucumbíos: La Sofia road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan (Andigena hypoglauca)

Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan

Andigena hypoglauca

Large313 gForest

The grey-breasted mountain toucan is 41 to 48 cm (16 to 19 in) long and weighs 244 to 370 g (8.6 to 13 oz). Males and females within each subspecies have the same plumage, and the two subspecies have the same bill pattern though the female's bill is shorter. The bill's base is yellow to greenish with a black band near the base. The maxilla's outer 2/3 is red, meeting the yellow diagonally. The mandible's outer half is black. Both subspecies have a black cap, face, and nape; a gray-blue band on the hindneck; a greenish brown back; and gray to gray-blue underparts.

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Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

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