#selenidera

[herpsandbirds]

Yellow-eared Toucanet (Selenidera spectabilis), male, family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Luis Ricardo Rojas

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Yellow-eared Toucanet

Photo: Cathie Barron

"Small toucan with distinctive plumage pattern. Male has black body with bright yellow cheek patch; also note olive back and orange patch on flanks. Female similar; she lacks the yellow cheek patch but still has bright yellow-teal skin around the eye. Found in the forest canopy, usually in pairs or small family groups. Feeds on fruits, and sometimes perches conspicuously on an open branch."

- eBird

[birdstudies]

March 15, 2024 - Yellow-eared Toucanet (Selenidera spectabilis) Found in parts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, these toucans live in and around mountain and lowland forests. They eat fruit, insects, spiders, and lizards, foraging in pairs and small flocks. Little is known about their nesting behavior, though they may primarily breed between April and August and perform courtship displays while singing. Females are thought to lay clutches of two to four eggs.

[birdirectory]

spot-billed toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris) by João Ferraz

[vintagrafica]

Guianan toucanet or Selenidera piperivora

The Guianan toucanet, or Guyana toucanet is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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[psikonauti]

Spot-billed toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris)

[moved-to-void-kissed]

..The fact that I just spent a solid hour or so scrolling through the entirety of Wikipedia’s list of bird genera to come up with a self-insert name probably isn’t a good sign, is it

(For context, all of the named Celestrians in Dragon Quest IX are named after birds - Aquila meaning eagle, Columba meaning dove, Corvus meaning crow, and so on. This also extends to the names written on various towns’ Guardian statues. Unfortunately I think they’re more specifically named after constellations of birds, like Apus Major - since the bird-of-paradise genus on its own is just Apus - so.. that narrows options down.)

..I’m still thinking about Pavo a lot

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Spot-billed Toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris) © Xavier De Poret

It hatches from bare, black, blue, brown, green, humid, multicolored, olive, red, and small eggs.

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[amnhnyc]

Meet the Spot-billed Toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris)! This species inhabits forests throughout Central and South America, including parts of Argentina and Brazil. It’s often seen in pairs or small groups foraging for fruit. In addition to the signature spots on its bill, it has dark spots around its pupils; this gives the illusion of horizontal pupils. Photo: Jairmoreirafotografia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons https://www.instagram.com/p/CWSIuePLnAi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[typhlonectes]

Yellow-eared Toucanet (Selenidera spectabilis)

This colorful bird inhabits forests in parts of Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador, where it feeds mainly on fruit. To distinguish a male from a female, check its namesake trait: Males have yellow streaks of plumage on each side of the head, which females lack. Another signifier to help tell them apart is the color of the forehead; those of females are a rusty-brown color, while those of males are black.

Photo: Cathie Barron, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

via: American Museum of Natural History

[herpsandbirds]

Golden-collared Toucanet (Selenidera reinwardtii), male, family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, Peru

photograph by JJ Pamplona

[wingedjewels]

Tucancillo Orejiamarillo - Yellow-eared Toucanet - (Selenidera spectabilis) by Raúl Vega Via Flickr: Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, Heredia, Costa Rica

[jotaefe]

Selenidera maculirostris (Arasarí chico hembra)

[birdstudies]

January 19, 2023 - Golden-collared Toucanet (Selenidera reinwardtii) Found in parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru, these toucans live in lowland rainforests. They eat a variety of fruit, including figs, as well as some insects, foraging alone, in pairs, and in flocks, sometimes with other species. Nesting in tree cavities, they lay clutches of at least three eggs, though little else is known about their breeding behavior.

[birdirectory]

spot-billed toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris) by Junior Girotto

[zenzilihasmoved]

Hey, whenever you’re in the mood would you like to tell us about doves, pigeons, or toucans? Those are my favorite birds!!! I would really love to adopt a rescue dove or pigeon someday 😭💕

Hi!!!!!!!! i answered this late cuz i needed to compile my information and i learned a lot thanks to you asking so i appreciate it :) I’ll talk about toucans since those are the ones I researched first!!

So! Toucans, or ramphastidae, are a family composed of five genera, so there’s a lot of information in that one word. The most commonly known one is the toco toucan, which is the largest of the typical toucans, genus ramphastos. something fun about toucans is it was originally thought that they were carnivorous and mostly ate fish because they have serrated beaks! It turns out they mostly eat fruit, but are opportunistic omnivores - eating eggs, insects and small birds when they chance upon them. Also they have six inch tongues :)

Another REALLY interesting thing: The bills of the toco toucans are what makes them so special, having (iirc) the biggest bill relative to body mass of any bird! It’s been theorized that they evolved these huge bills because:1. It’s easier to get food with a bigger bill2. Perhaps to attract a mate3. AND! Body heat control! Toucans are VERY VERY efficient in this regard thanks to their large, light bills made of spongy bone! According to a paper i read during my research, they can modulate how much heat is radiated out of their bill, thus improving the efficiency with which heat is released, and this method rivals the elephant’s method - their huge ears! Juvenile toucans are not as good at this, probably because their whole system and blood vessels in their bills aren’t fully developed yet.

Also, Toucans have a couple of joints in their tails, and their tails are connected to their backsides by a ball joint, allowing them to snap their tails up. This is how they sleep:

so cute...! 

One last note, most ramphastidae are not obviously sexually dimorphic, except for selenidera, or dimorphic toucanets, the six species that are clearly sexually dimorphic. 

Moving onto pigeons.Surprisingly, pigeons and doves aren’t actually different. They’re both columbidae and in English, “dove” is more often applied to smaller columbidae, whereas “pigeon” is applied to bigger ones, but this isn’t a consistent difference at all.

so , columbidae have been domesticated for... SO long. We have sculptures depicting humans holding pigeons from the 5th century BC. and thanks to various information including Darwin’s famous experiments with cross-breeding pigeon breeds, it’s commonly accepted that all  (known) domesticated pigeons(doves) originate from the rock dove, and were selectively bred to create fancy, racing and utility breeds. there are literally SO many it would take me WEEKS to chose maybe 3 i really really like. there are 800 fancy breeds alone. EIGHT HUNDRED. but that post about lahore pigeons here on tumblr is true, lahore pigeons are really cute and apparently known for their gentle dispositions ! I’m definitely going to read up on some of these breeds, but for now all I can tell you is pigeons can be bred to be QUITE a lot of things. Pigeons are selectively bred for voice, color/pattern, face shape, beak length, etcetera, there’s a breed that has a fan tail i mean that’s pretty intense. there’s also

these guys, pouters. woah, right? 

anyway yeah.. there’s SO MANY pigeon breeds.. that is what  i learned today. I also did not know pigeons were actually bred to have inhanced homing capabilities. sexy. we still dont know what homing is, do we.... anyway yeah