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title: "Channel-billed Toucan"
description: "Ramphastos vitellinus — Uccelli. The channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and in tropical South America as far south as southern Brazil and central Bolivia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/channel-billed-toucan
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Channel-billed Toucan

> Ramphastos vitellinus — Uccelli. The  channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and in tropical South America as far south as southern Brazil and central Bolivia.

- Scientific name: *Ramphastos vitellinus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 3045
- Wikidata: [Q998465](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q998465)
- iNaturalist taxon: [18803](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18803)

## Names

- en: Channel-billed Toucan
- de: Dottertukan
- es: Tucán de pico acanalado
- fr: Toucan ariel
- nl: Groefsnaveltoekan
- pt: Tucano-de-bico-preto
- pl: Tukan żółtogardły

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1948), CO (205), TT (144), GF (132), EC (91), PE (60), SR (54), GY (45), BO (20), VE (6)

## Summary

The  channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and in tropical South America as far south as southern Brazil and central Bolivia.

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

## Photo

![Channel-billed Toucan](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/channel-billed-toucan/medium.jpg)

Photo: filipeprates · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323646303

## Machine access

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