Habitat Range

• South America is home to many toucans.Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Douglas Fernandes
  
  Toucans live throughout Central and South America, often in the high canopy of rain forests at elevations reaching 10,000 feet.
  
  

Diet

• Lizards can be food for toucans.Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Neil
  
  Diet consists primarily of fruit, berries and insects, supplemented infrequently by small tree lizards, bird eggs and nestlings.
  
  

Nesting

• Toucans nest in tree cavities, sometimes driving woodpeckers from their homes or taking over abandoned woodpecker nests.
  
  

Habits

• Toucan in profileImage by Flickr.com, courtesy of Ville Miettinen
  
  Toucans gather in small flocks of around six birds. They bathe in rainwater that collects in hollows high in the trees.
  
  

Threats to Survival

• Rain forestImage by Flickr.com, courtesy of Paul B
  
  Survival of some toucan species, including the Toucan Barbet, is threatened by extensive trapping and ongoing loss of habitat through destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest.
  
  

Fun Fact

• Toucan amid vegetationImage by Flickr.com, courtesy of Luz A. Villa
  
  Indigenous rain-forest people believe that the Toco Toucan acts as an intermediary between this world and the spirit world.