Collared Aracari

• GeneralA small toucan that sleeps in tree holes with its tail folded over its back.
• They sleep packed together: up to six adults share the same tree hole each night, folding their tails over their backs like a closed fan so that they all fit.
• It practises cooperative breeding: young from earlier broods help feed the chicks of the breeding pair, something that is uncommon among toucans.
• It regularly preys on other birds' nests: it raids the eggs and chicks of other canopy birds, a habit that sits oddly with its reputation as a fruit-eating toucan.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Lowland rainforest, secondary forest and plantations of Central America and northern South America

Size at birth

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

16 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteroglossus_torquatus

Best time: All year round in the forests of Central America and northern South America, by day; it moves in small parties that roost together in tree holes.