Bird Guide

Golden-collared Toucanet vs Spot-billed Toucanet

Golden-collared Toucanet (Selenidera reinwardtii)

Golden-collared Toucanet

Selenidera reinwardtii

Medium162 gForest

The golden-collared toucanet is 33 to 35 cm (13 to 14 in) long. The nominate subspecies weighs 129 to 178 g (4.6 to 6.3 oz) and S. r. langsdorffii 134 to 200 g (4.7 to 7.1 oz). The two subspecies have essentially the same plumage. Adult males have a black head, nape, and shoulders. A narrow yellow band separates the black shoulders from the green back. Their tail is green with chestnut tips on the central two or three pairs of feathers. Their eye is surrounded by bare blue skin (greener in S. r. langsdorffii) and a golden-yellow tuft of feathers protrudes behind it.

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Photo: Emma Oxford · CC BY 4.0
Spot-billed Toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris)

Spot-billed Toucanet

Selenidera maculirostris

Medium164 gForest

The spot-billed toucanet is 33 to 37 cm (13 to 15 in) long and weighs 137 to 193 g (4.8 to 6.8 oz). Males and females have the same bill pattern but the female's bill is shorter. The bill has a thin vertical black line at its base. The bill is mostly ivory at the base to greenish-yellow at the tip. The middle of the culmen is black, the maxilla has three to five vertical black stripes, and the mandible has a black patch near the end. Both sexes have bare green-yellow to blue skin around the eye and a golden-yellow tuft of feathers behind it; both are paler in the female.

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Photo: Gustavo Magnago · CC BY 3.0

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