Yellow-eared Toucanet

Yellow-eared Toucanet
Female
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Selenidera
Species: S. spectabilis
Binomial name
Selenidera spectabilis
Cassin, 1857

The Yellow-eared Toucanet (Selenidera spectabilis) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in humid forests in Central America and the Chocó. A somewhat aberrant member of the genus Selenidera, it is relatively large (total length approximately 38 cm [15 in]) and the plumage of the sexes only differ in that the male has a yellow auricular streak, while the female has a brown crown. It weighs 175-245 grams (6.2-8.7 oz.)[1]

References

  1. ^ "Toucans, Barbets & Honeyguides" by Lester Short & Jennifer Horne. Oxford University Press (2001), ISBN 0-19-85466-1