Chestnut-billed+toucan

Chestnut-mandibled toucan

This colorful toucan is the second largest toucan species. All toucans are native to Central and South America. Our zoo is participating in the Species Survival Plan for this species and we hope our pair will reproduce. This species of toucan is also called "Dios tede" for the sound that it makes. Dios tede is also Spanish for "May God give it to you". The toucans vocalize to maintain contact with the flock in a kind of "follow the leader" through the trees. Toucans eat fruit and also lizards, frogs, other bird's eggs, and insects. Their method of eating fruit allows the seeds to pass through their system unharmed so they help replant the rainforest. Both parents incubate and care for the 2 to 4 chicks that they have.