Birds of Colombia - Aulacorhynchus


White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta lautus) Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Colombia Santa Marta race.
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta phaeolaemus) La Romera, Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta griseigularis) Immature Parque Ecológico El Salado, Antioquia, Colombia Note immature's short bill.
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After much shuffling, this species now includes the similar Grey-throated Toucanet of the Pacific slope, and the somewhat different looking Santa Marta Toucanet.
Phaeolaemus race.
Bird with bill deterioration.


Blue-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis) Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Split from the Emerald Toucanet and now includes the Violet-throated Toucanet on the Colombia/Panama border.


Chestnut-tipped Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus derbianus) Old Loja-Zamora Highway, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.

Note chestnut tip to bill and tail.


Crimson-rumped Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus)
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A slightly larger toucanet found mostly on the western Andean slope.


Groove-billed Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus) Parque del Este, Caracas, Venezuela
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