The ZooChat Photographic Guide To The Piciformes (part I) - Toucans

[ThylacineAlive]

The coloration of the bill isn't correct from A.a.albivitatta. A glance at their website confirms this is A.p.prasinus.

Fair enough then. Thanks for the correction.

Any idea on the subspecies status of the captive population of Aulacorhynchus haematopygus?

~Thylo

 

[birdsandbats]

Black-billed Mountain-Toucan Andigena nigrirostris (Waterhouse, 1839)

Andes from north-western Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador.

Polytypic, three subspecies.

A. n. nigrirostris
A. n. occidentalis
A. n. spilorhynchus

This species is not represented in the gallery.

@Giant Eland uploaded a photo black-billed mountain toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) - ZooChat

 

[Phrynoidis]

Pteroglossus - Aracaris
Lettered Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus (Swainson, 1822)

Central Brazil from the Atlantic Ocean across into central Bolivia; a disjunct population in eastern Brazil in Pernambuco and eastern Alagoas.

Monotypic.

Photo by @savethelephant

tHIS bird is not inscriptus is it? afaik the inscriptus has the mandible yellow with lettering, wheras the humdbolti has the black mandible, so this is humbdolti in that case

 

[ThylacineAlive]

tHIS bird is not inscriptus is it? afaik the inscriptus has the mandible yellow with lettering, wheras the humdbolti has the black mandible, so this is humbdolti in that case

I have heard that many of the birds in the US are humboldti. I think only DWA has inscriptus, but not 100% sure.

~Thylo

 

[TeaLovingDave]

tHIS bird is not inscriptus is it? afaik the inscriptus has the mandible yellow with lettering, wheras the humdbolti has the black mandible, so this is humbdolti in that case

I suspect that STE labelled the photograph using the taxonomy which lumps inscriptus and humboldti - hence the title.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I suspect that STE labelled the photograph using the taxonomy which lumps inscriptus and humboldti - hence the title.

It's likely how the zoo signed the animal as well. I'm not sure where exactly STE's photo was taken, but given they're from NY it's probably Prospect Park's bird which is/was labeled as inscriptus.

~Thhylo

 

[TeaLovingDave]

I'm not sure where exactly STE's photo was taken, but given they're from NY it's probably Prospect Park's bird which is/was labeled as inscriptus.

Yeah, looking at the original image it's in the Prospect Park gallery