Toucans (Ramphastidae)
Groove-billed Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus) - HBW 7, p. 251
French: Toucanet à bec silloné
German: Blauzügelarassari
Spanish: Tucanete Picosurcado
Other common names: Yellow-billed Toucanet (calorhynchus)
Taxonomy: Pteroglossus sulcatus Swainson, 1820, Venezuela.
Forms a superspecies with A. derbianus. Rather closely related also to A. prasinus, with which race calorhynchus overlaps somewhat. Race calorhynchus sometimes considered a separate species, but resembles other races vocally and intergrades with nominate. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- calorhynchus (Gould, 1874) - NE Colombia (Santa Marta and Perijá Mts) E into W Venezuela (E to SW Lara).
- sulcatus (Swainson, 1820) - N Venezuela (Falcón E to Miranda).
- erythrognathus (Gould, 1874) - NE Venezuelan mountains.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A close-up of the head of a bird Locality Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 May 2003 4 years ago 24 sec 4.4 -
A bird in a branch, bobbing the head and tail Locality Rancho Grande Biological Station, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 January 2006 5 years ago 25 sec 4.4 -
A bird bobbing the head and tail Locality Rancho Grande Biological Station, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 January 2006 5 years ago 13 sec 4.2 -
An adult bird having a look inside a hole in a trunk Locality Rancho Grande Biological Station, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 July 2003 4 years ago 15 sec 3.4
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A single bird kept by itself. This particular individual only has one eye.
Locality Dallas World Aquarium, Dallas, Texas, USA (United States)
Jonathan Beilby 1 June 2011 37 weeks ago 4 -
Frontal view of perched bird with head turned
Locality El Ávila National Park, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
Mikko Pyhälä 19 May 2009 3 years ago 4 -
Bird perched on a branch and eating a fruit
Locality El Ávila National Park, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
Mikko Pyhälä 1 January 2009 3 years ago 4 -
An adult in the hand during ringing.
Locality Paso Portachuelo, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
Jhonathan Miranda 1 October 2010 1 year ago 3.6 -
Bird eating a fruit at Rancho Grande, PN Henri Pittier, Aragua
Locality Venezuela (ssp sulcatus)
Jim Watt 24 February 2008 3 years ago 3.5
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Song. Locality Rancho Grande Biological Station, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela
(ssp sulcatus)
Nick Athanas 26 February 2008 2 years ago 4
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