Black-billed mountain toucan
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Ramphastidae |
| Genus: | Andigena |
| Species: | A. nigrirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Andigena nigrirostris (Waterhouse, 1839) | |
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The black-billed mountain toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in humid highland forests in the Andes of western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru. It is the only mountain-toucan with a white throat. Despite its name, only the nominate subspecies has an entirely black bill, while both A. n. occidentalis and A. n. spilorhyncha have bills that are coloured chestnut and black.
Taxonomy and systematics
Subspecies
Three subspecies are recognized:[2]
- A. n. occidentalis - Chapman, 1915: Found in western Colombia
- A. n. spilorhynchus - Gould, 1858: Found in southern Colombia, north-eastern Ecuador and northern Peru
- A. n. nigrirostris - (Waterhouse, 1839): Found in eastern Colombia, western Venezuela and eastern Ecuador
Literature
- John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter: A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans, London 1854
- Newly printed with an Introduction by Jonathan Elphick, Taschen, Köln, Germany 2011 ISBN 978-3-8365-0524-6
Feeding on fruits in Colombia
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Andigena nigrirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4.
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