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The hooded mountain toucan is 48 to 50 cm (19 to 20 in) long and weighs 222 to 380 g (7.8 to 13 oz). Males and females have the same plumage and bill pattern though the female's bill is shorter. Their bill is mostly yellow-green, with a black tip and a black spot near the base of the mandible. Their head is dark blue to black with pale blue bare skin around the eye and a gray-blue collar on the hindneck. Their upper back is chestnut becoming green and yellow at the rump. Their tail is blackish and their wings green.
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When to see the Hooded Mountain Toucan
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Hooded Mountain Toucan
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.
About the Hooded Mountain Toucan
The hooded mountain toucan is a species of bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Plate-billed Mountain ToucanAndigena laminirostrisPlate-billed Mountain-Toucans have a large laterally compressed bill, the front half of which is black and the back half is mostly red with a raised yellow plate on the upper mandible, a unique feature for which the bird was named.
Grey-breasted Mountain ToucanAndigena hypoglaucaThe 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).
Black-billed Mountain ToucanAndigena nigrirostrisThe three subspecies of black-billed mountain toucan have almost the same plumage.
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