Plate-billed Mountain Toucan
Leistenschnabeltukan ( Andigena laminirostris )
The Leistenschnabeltukan ( Andigena laminirostris ) is a South American woodpecker bird. Another name for the bird is beak - sheet Blautukan.
Features
The up to 50 centimeters long Leistenschnabeltukan is colored black on the bottom and blue-gray on the hood. The olive-brown wings have yellow spots on the flanks. The mostly black beak is yellow at the root rot and on the flat horny plates on the upper beak pages. The wings are relatively small and rounded, so the bird can not fly very well. Through the powerful claws, however, he moves nimbly leaping away in the branches of the trees.
Unlike the Blautukan the Leistenschnabeltukan is ruffreudig. According to his repertoire heard repeatedly, nasal quuuuah, quuuuah and a staccato clatter.
Occurrence
The bird comes in western Colombia and Ecuador. Its habitat is in front covered with bromeliads and mosses mountain rain forests and forest edges temperate and subtropical regions. Its altitudinal distribution ranges from 300 meters at the Pacific foothills of the Andes up to 3,200 meters.
Behavior
The Leistenschnabeltukan examined in the branches of trees for fruits, insects and small vertebrates. The birds live in pairs or in small groups. Occasionally they join mixed bird squads in search of food.
In woodpecker or tree hollows both parents incubate birds usually two to three eggs.
Attitude
Leistenschnabeltukane were held at the beginning of the 21st century in four zoological gardens, including the world Walsrode Bird Park. Breeding success in European zoos, there was not until 2002 that Welterstzucht succeeded succeeded in the Los Angeles Zoo.