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Toucan

ToucanScientific Name: Ramphastos toco

Habitat: Tree dwellers found in eastern and southern Brazil, the Guiana region, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina

Diet: Fruit, seeds, insects, spiders, eggs, nestlings and small animals

Life Span: Up to 20 years

Reproduction: The female lays 2 to 4 eggs which hatch after 16 days. It takes several weeks for the chicks to grow feathers.

Fact: A roosting Toucan often tucks its bill among its back feathers and folds its tail up over its body so that it looks like a ball of feathers.

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