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Toucans

A member of family Ramphastidae, a Toucan is a large-billed, long tail bird in South and Central America. Many Toucans are black with a bold breast color and brightly colored, thick saw-edged bills. They feed on fruit, insects and lizards.

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Why do toucans have bills and what is the bills purpose?

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Toucans have bills after years of evolution so they can reach food in trees easier

How do toucans find food?

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toucans hunt for there food by flying around the rainforest and looking around for any fruits, bird eggs insects, and tree frogs

How big is a egg of the toucan?

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Toucan-sized.

What are good toucan names?

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mango, toco, uncle sam, kiwi, sam, loops, and lots more!

Do toucans live alone in pairs or in groups?

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They live alone!

What is the egg color of the toucans?

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Toucan eggs are white.

How does toucans get there energy?

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Parrots get energy just like humans do....... by eating!

Can you find a red billed toucan in Australia?

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no there aren't

Where are toucans mostly found in the world?

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Toucans are found in the southernmost parts of Mexico, all of Central America, the Caribbean, and the northernmost parts of South America. They do not occur naturally on the other continents in the world.

Are toucans covered with feathers?

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Yes, especially because they are birds. :)

How much does an adult toucan weigh?

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An adult toucan weighs about 400 grams

What is the rarest toucan?

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I think the rarest parrot is the Spix Macaw. The last one in the wild that is known of died in 2000. It is a pretty blue color. There are around 80 captive birds around the world that are being bred to keep the population growing. There also may be some unsighted wild birds. Hope this helps.

Do toucan eats other toucan?

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No way! But they do eat small OTHER birds and their eggs. :)

Would a tiger eat a toucan?

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No, but they do eat raging homosexuals, so i would be careful.

I hope this helps

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Derek Roy

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How is a toucan a predator and also a prey?

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The short and simple answer is that it is both predator and prey.

A typical toucan's diet consists mainly of fruit. However, toucans are known to eat small snakes and lizards, insects, and the eggs and nestlings of other small birds as part of their diet.

Toucans are the prey of larger predatory birds such as hawks as well as predator cats such as the jaguar.

What do tropical rain forest toucans eat?

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There are many types of Toucans, and each has their own diet. A Choco toucans require a diet that is high in fruit and iron.

Do toucans eat butterflies?

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Toucans eat a variety of different things. It eats small insects, including butterflies, as well as young birds and fruit,

Can you use a toucan as a pet?

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No a toucan is not a parrot. Toucans, or ramphastids are a family of birds in the order piciformes. Woodpeckers, and barbets are also in the order piciformes. Parrot actually refers to an entire order of birds, the psitticiformes, and since toucans are piciformes rather than psitticiformes they are not a parrot.

What berries do toucans eat?

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In the wild they eat hundreds of different varieties of fruit, such as ficus fruits. In captivity they are commonly fed fruits such as blueberries, papaya, melon, grapes, bananas and more. Citrus fruit should not be given to a toucan, because their tendency to develop something called hemochromatosis (also known as iron storage disease) and citrus (as well as anything high in iron) increases the likelihood of them suffering and dying from that illness.

Toucans eat lots of fruit from the amazon rain forest like ficus (figs), blueberries, papaya, melon, grapes, and bananas.

How would the toucan population be affected if the population of trees in its habitat decreased dramatically?

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Toucans are like the Cassowary. They both eat fruit from trees in the rainforest and then when they fly around, the seeds are spread all over the plantation, allowing more trees to grow so they don't die out or group together and suffocate each other. If we didn't have the Toucan or Cassowary it is quite possible that we wouldn't have rain forests altogether. That would affect the atmosphere, greenhouse gasses and us hugely. Hope I answered your question!

How many different species of a toucan are there?

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Many! there are more than 40 types of the truly pretty bird!

When do baby Toucans learn how to fly?

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baby toucans leave home when they can hunt on their own and no longer half to depend on their mother.

What is the toco toucans niche?

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A toucans niche consists of eating hunting having babies and sleeping

What is a toucans body feature?

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Toucans are found from north-central Mexico south through Central America to northern Argentina in South America. The feet have two toes pointing forward and two pointing backward. There are approximately 40 known species of toucans. The toucan's body is anywhere from 13 to 25 inches long.Their bodies are usually colored with black, white, red, yellow, blue, and green feathers.