Toucan Pictures

With their flashy beaks and rainbow feathers, Toucans are one of the most photogenic bird families in the world. Our Toucan photo gallery showcases a wide range of Toucan species, with as many different colors as you can imagine. In the wild, Toucans are very shy, so our gallery of Toucan pictures is a great place to study these famous birds up close. If you like any of our Toucan images, you can buy it to put on a gift or use as a stock photo.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan In ProfileA plate-billed mountain toucan in the Mindo Cloudforest. From this angle, you can see all its colors clearly, from its blue-gray belly and chestnut wings to the rectangular plate on its bill.

Where there’s one plate-billed mountain toucan, there’s almost always more. They live in monogamous pairs, and often gather together in larger groups of family and friends.

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Chestnut Mandibled Toucan Posing In A TreeThe Chestnut-mandibled toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii) is a subspecies of the yellow-throated toucan. The chestnut-mandibled toucan is brightly marked like others of its species.

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Collared Aracari ToucanCollared aracari toucans are brightly marked and have a large bill.

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Costa Rica Keel Billed ToucanThe keel-billed toucan, national bird of Belize, may have gotten its name from the way its bill resembles a ship’s keel.

The bill might look unwieldy, but it’s actually a useful multi-tool. This toucan can reach into a crevice, grab some fruit, chew it up, and swallow it whole in some motion. It’s quite the sight to see.

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Crimson Rumped Toucanet Sits On A Tree BranchThe Crimson-rumped Toucanet is found in humid Andean forests such as this one in Ecuador. These birds have a maroon-red color to their rump and tail. The bill is black and maroon with a white band around the base.

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Keel Billed Toucan In The WildKeel-billed toucans like this one are as playful as they look. They like to use their huge bills like swords for play-fighting. Games with fruit are also popular, with some toucans throwing fruit for others to catch.

Given that keel-billed toucans share their tree hollows with lots of extended family members, fun times are important to keep tempers from running high.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan PhotoA plate-billed mountain toucan in Ecuador. It’s named for the yellow-orange “plate” on its bill, which is black to dark-red otherwise.

Plate-billed mountain toucans are loud enough to hear almost a mile away. Males and females have distinct calls, adding lots of noise to the symphony of the cloud forest.

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A Brightly Colored Toucan Perches On BranchA Collared Aracari perches on a branch at Milpi Lodge in Ecuador. This species of toucan is one of the many impressive species of birds that can be found in the ecologically diverse country of Ecuador, and is known for it's brightly marked body, and large bill.

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Collared Aracari Toucan On A BranchCollared aracari toucans live in small flocks of up to 15 birds. They rapidly fly through forests with a direct flight pattern.

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Costa Rican ToucanA Costa Rican toucan poses up close and personally displaying all of its vibrant colors.

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Crimson Rumped ToucanetA crimson-rumped toucanet photographed in the Tandayapa cloud forest. From this angle, you can see how it gets its name.

In addition to their signature red behinds, crimson-rumped toucanets have one of the widest vocal ranges in the cloud forest, capable of both beautiful songs and repetitive chirps.

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Keel Billed Toucan ImageKeel-billed toucans are highly social. The one in this picture is probably communicating with several others just outside the frame.

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Keel Billed Toucan In Costa RicaThe keel-billed toucan is the national bird of Belize. Judging from its pose, this one knows full well it’s a celebrity.

Keel-billed toucans have four toes on each feet: two that face forward and two that face back. This helps them hang onto small branches, and cross the rainforest canopy by jumping from branch to branch.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan In A TreeThe Plate-billed Mountain Toucan is native to the west slope of Ecuador and extreme southern Colombia. These birds found in northwestern Ecuador have blue, brown, green, red and yellow coloring throughout their bodies.
This plate-billed mountain toucan was found in the Mindo region of Ecuador.

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Collared Aracari Toucan In EcuadorA Collared Aracari toucan sits on a branch and poses for the camera. Costa Rican Collared Aracari have a red collar on the back of their necks.

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Costa Rica Black Mandibled ToucanThe black-mandibled toucan goes by many names. It’s also called the yellow-throated toucan, and sometimes the chestnut-mandibled toucan (though some naturalists think that’s a subspecies).

These toucans have adapted to a huge range of habitats in Central and South America. Early white explorers thought their haunting cry sounded like a Spanish blessing.

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Mindos Cloudforest Plate Billed ToucanA plate-billed mountain toucan perches on a branch in the humid forest of Ecuador, near the town of Mindo. The cloud forest preserves here are small, but rich with wildlife.

Toucans like this one are rarely photographed in flight. They usually prefer hopping from branch to branch in the canopy, looking for tasty fruit.

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Collared Aracari In Costa RicaA Collared Aracari on its perch in Costa Rica.

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Emerald ToucanetAn emerald toucanet explores a forest canopy near Costa Rica’s waterfalls, looking for fruit.

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A Collared Aracari Toucan Peeks At The CameraCollared aracari toucans mainly eat tree fruits, but will also eat insects, lizards, eggs and other small prey.

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Crimson Rumped Toucanet In Tandayapa Cloud ForestA crimson-rumped toucanet with a hooked black-maroon bill and blue-green plumage. A “toucanet” is just a small toucan.

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Perching Keel Billed Toucan PictureA keel-billed toucan photographed in Costa Rica. Its heavy wings aren’t well-suited to flying, so it’s mostly seen hopping from branch to branch.

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Costa Rica Keel Billed ToucanThe colorful bill of the keel-billed toucan is almost a third as long as its body, but it’s actually light and hollow.

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Keel Billed Toucan PictureA keel-billed toucan smiles, showing off its serrated teeth. Photo taken in Costa Rica.

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Keel Billed Toucan Up CloseThe keel-billed toucan’s call sounds a lot like a frog’s croak. In the Costa Rica rainforest, you’ll hear them a lot more often than you think.

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Toucan Barbet In EcuadorA Toucan Barbet found in the cloud forest of Ecuador.

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Collared Aracari With FoodA Collared Aracari on a branch with food in its beak.

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Crimson Rumped Toucanet In EcuadorCrimson-rumped Toucanets can be found in humid forests in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Their feathers are mainly green except for a maroon red rump and tail-tip.

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Keel Billed Toucan In Costa RicaPhoto of a keel-billed toucan sitting on a branch. Its bill is named for a ship’s keel, a similarly shaped structure that keeps ships from capsizing.

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Keel Billed Toucan In Lowlands Of Costa RicaIn this photograph, a keel-billed toucan regards the camera. Keel-billed toucans can be found everywhere from Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan In Ecuador Cloud ForestThe plate-billed mountain toucan is endemic to the Ecuadorian cloud forests near the town of Mindo. Note its distinctive blue belly and the yellow spot on its bill.

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Black Mandibled Toucan In Costa RicaThe black-mandibled toucan, easily recognized by its red-black lower bill, is also called the yellow-throated toucan or chestnut-mandibled toucan.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan In The Mindo CloudforestEcuador’s Mindo Cloudforest is so full of diversity that birders can note up to 400 species in a single day. This photograph shows a plate-billed mountain toucan, named for the yellow plate on its bill.

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Yellow Throated Toucan In Costa RicaPhotograph of a yellow-throated (or black-mandibled) toucan on a branch in the Costa Rican lowlands.

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Costa Rican Toucan Collared AracariThe collared araçari is an unusually-colored toucanet, often seen making short, direct flights across the rainforest canopy.

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Crimson Rumped Toucanet On A PerchCrimson-rumped Toucanet on a perch in the Mindo Cloudforest, Ecuador.

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Smiling Keel Billed ToucanA keel-billed toucan rests on a branch, in a picture taken just after sunrise. These toucans are most active at dawn and dusk.

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Collared Aracari PhotographPicture of a collared araçari (pronounced “are-a-sorry”), showing the distinct color bands across its stomach.

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Keel Billed Toucan PhotoThe huge namesake bill of this keel-billed toucan serves many functions. In the course of a day, this toucan might use its bill to collect food, impress a mate, battle with a rival, and regulate its body temperature.

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Plate Billed Mountain Toucan In EcuadorThe Plate-billed mountain toucan (Andigena laminirostris) is native to the west slope of Ecuador where it lives in the high-altitude humid forests.

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