Saffron Toucanet Pteroglossus bailloni

Saffron Toucanet
Saffron Toucanet
Saffron Toucanet
The Saffron Toucanet is native to fragmented Atlantic forest in southern Brazil. Its genus has been moved from mountain toucans to a monotypic genus and now to that of the aracaris. It is also called the Banana Aracari or Toucan.
Saffron Toucanet
Saffron Toucanet
Saffron Toucanet
The male plumage is more golden and that of the female more olive-coloured. Eating whole fruits, they have a useful role in seed dispersal. They are "near threatened" by fragmentation of their limited habitat.