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title: "White-throated Toucan"
description: "Ramphastos tucanus — Birds. The white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) is a near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae found in South America throughout the Amazon Basin including the adjacent Tocantins and Araguaia River drainage."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-throated-toucan
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-throated Toucan

> Ramphastos tucanus — Birds. The white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) is a near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae found in South America throughout the Amazon Basin including the adjacent Tocantins and Araguaia River drainage.

- Scientific name: *Ramphastos tucanus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 3883
- Wikidata: [Q384839](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384839)
- iNaturalist taxon: [18799](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18799)

## Names

- en: White-throated Toucan
- de: Weißbrusttukan
- es: Tucán de pecho blanco
- fr: Toucan à bec rouge
- nl: Roodsnaveltoekan
- pt: Tucano-de-peito-branco
- pl: Tukan czerwonodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1101), EC (542), PE (452), CO (208), GF (164), BO (72), GY (70), SR (49), VE (30)

## Summary

The white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) is a near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae found in South America throughout the Amazon Basin including the adjacent Tocantins and Araguaia River drainage. It prefers tropical humid forest, but also occurs in woodland and locally in riverine forest within cerrado.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_toucan

## Photo

![White-throated Toucan](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-throated-toucan/medium.jpg)

Photo: Etienne Falquet · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144452974

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-throated-toucan?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).