Big-billed bird of the tropics

Usage examples of toucan.

The variety of animals was impressive: ocelot, toucan, marmoset, tamarin, anteater, even snakes and lizards, and oddly enough one jungle trout.

The drone of cicadas, the mournful cry of toucans, the rustle of a coatimundi in dry leaves, all returned to normal for this time of day and year.

Modern bird species vary greatly in their ecology and lifestyle, from aerial fliers to terrestrial runners and marine divers, from tiny hummingbirds to giant extinct elephant birds, and from penguins nesting in the Antarctic winter to toucans breeding in tropical rainforests.

I'd seen keel-billed toucans silhouetted in flight the afternoon we arrived in Belize, but this morning we got good views of them in all their size and color.

They became excited when our guides pointed out the toucans, and we let them borrow our binoculars to watch those huge, brilliant birds.

The flags were intricately woven of the feathers' natural colors: egret feathers for the white grounds of the flags, and for the designs the various reds of macaws and cardinals and parakeets, the various blues of jays and herons, the yellows of toucans and tanagers.

It was also the northernmost range of the parrots, macaws, toucans, and other tropical birds of resplendent plumage.