Keel-billed Toucan

A vibrant member of the toucan family from Latin America, the keel-billed toucan is sometimes known as the sulfur-breasted toucan or rainbow-billed toucan. It serves as Belize's national bird. Tropical jungles from southern Mexico to Colombia are home to the species. It is an omnivorous forest bird that consumes lizards, snakes, and eggs from tiny birds, fruits, seeds, insects, and invertebrates.

The jungles of Central and South America are home to this magnificent bird. They can get up to 4 kg in weight and 20 cm in length. Their chest and throat are yellow, while the remainder of their plumage is black. Keel-billed toucans have hefty wings, which makes them bad flyers. They can only navigate the tree branches by hoping.

Keel-billed toucans typically eat a variety of fruits, but their diets can also include insects, eggs, nestlings, and lizards. The toucan's bill, which is extremely agile, enables it to consume a wide range of fruit that it might not otherwise be able to. It breaks the fruit into pieces with its bill before swallowing it whole by throwing its head back.

Due to habitat loss, which has been rising recently, as well as shooting and trapping for the pet trade, this species is in danger. The species is considered to be Near Threatened because of the moderately rapid population loss it is experiencing. Keel-billed toucan is one of the most beautiful birds in the world is