Keel Toucan Skull Replica or Green Billed Toucan measures 8.4 inches, museum quality polyurethane cast. Keel Toucan Skull Replica 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw).

Our precise skull can be used as a birdwatching teaching tool, museum bird skull exhibit, home décor bird skull, or office décor skull.

Green Billed Toucan or Ramphastos dicolorus is native to Central and South America. They are also called the Red-Breasted Toucan. Toucans are easily identifiable by their large colorful beaks. This beak has a serrated edge which functions much like teeth. A toucans diet consists of berries, fruits, occasional small vertebrates and insects.

Green Billed Toucan or Ramphastos dicolorus bodies are short and compact. The tail is rounded and varies in length, from half the length to the whole length of the body. The neck is short and thick.

The wings are small, as they are forest dwelling birds who only need to travel short distances, and are often of about the same span as the bill-tip-to-tail-tip measurements of the bird.

The legs of the Green Billed Toucan or Ramphastos dicolorus are strong and rather short. Their toes are arranged in pairs with the first and fourth toes turned backward.

The colorful and large bill, which in some large species measures more than half the length of the body.

Despite its size, their bill is very light, being composed of bone struts filled with spongy tissue of keratin between them. This deep light weight construction is the most efficient in terms of strength to weight ratio. The bill has forward facing serrations resembling teeth.

The large bill of the Green Billed Toucan or Ramphastos dicolorus is a highly efficient thermoregulation system, though its size may still be advantageous in other ways. It does aid in their feeding behavior (as they sit in one spot and reach for all fruit in range, thereby reducing energy expenditure).

The beak allows them to reach deep into trees to access food unavailable to other birds, and also to ransack suspended nests built by smaller birds.

The female keel-billed toucan will lay 1 to 4 white eggs in a natural or already-made tree cavity.The male and female share in the caring of the eggs, both taking turns incubating.

The eggs hatch approximately 15 to 20 days after being laid. After hatching, the male and female again take turns feeding the chicks.

When the chicks hatch, they have no feathers, and have their eyes closed for approximately 3 weeks. The chicks have adequately formed heel pads, which assist on the pit-covered bottom of the nest. The chicks stay in their nest for approximately eight to nine weeks while their bills develop fully and they are ready to fledge from the nest.

Green Billed Toucan Facts:
Conservation status: Least Concern
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Infraorder: Ramphastides
Family: Ramphastidae
Binomial Name: Geococcyx californianus
Genus: Ramphastos
Species: R. dicolorus
Binomial name: Ramphastos dicolorus

Filter