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Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)

Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)

Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)



Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus) Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii)

Class: Aves
Family: Ramphastidae
Common Name: Yellow-throated Toucan
Genus: Ramphastos
Species Name: ambiguus

About The Yellow-throated Toucan

Ramphastos ambiguus occurs as three subspecies in Central America and South America. Subspecies swainsonii occurs through Central America from south-east Honduras and Nicaragua. In Costa Rica, the taxon occurs in Corcovado National Park and Braulio Carrillo National Park. Its range extends through Panama and west Colombia, where it is limited in the east by the Cauca Valley having been extirpated from the Magdalena Valley. It continues west of the Andes as far as El Oro, south-west Ecuador (del Hoyo et al. 2002). Here it is apparently uncommon and has undergone a marked decline, although a sizeable population persists at Esmeraldas (del Hoyo et al. 2002, Restall et al. 2006). Subspecies abbrevianus occurs in north-east Colombia and northern Venezuela, possibly disjunctly (del Hoyo et al. 2002). It is scarce and local in the latter, with most records from Sierra de Perijá and the Andes (del Hoyo et al. 2002, Hilty 2003, Restall et al. 2006). The nominate subspecies ambiguus occurs east of the Andes from south-west Colombia through east Ecuador, where it is rare (del Hoyo et al. 2002, Restall et al. 2006). It is also uncommon in Peru, where its distribution reaches Junín (del Hoyo et al. 2002).

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2014. Ramphastos ambiguus. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Costa Rica
Ecuador
Mexico to Panama
Panama

Member Lifelists

Ecuador
North America
South America
World

Sites Where Observed

Location
Date
Notes
2/24/2009
Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii)
Chestnut-mandibled, ssp. swainsonii
3/9/2009
ssp swainsonii
3/13/2009
ssp. swainsonii
8/3/2023
8/4/2023
Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)
8/5/2023

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