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Yellow-throated Toucan
Ramphastos ambiguus · Family Ramphastidae
Ramphastos ambiguus
Family Ramphastidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Ramphastidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 284,987
- Countries and territories with records
- 13
About this species
This species has 284,987 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (68.5%), Ecuador (11.6%), Panama (9.9%), Colombia (7.7%) and Venezuela (1.6%); together they account for 99.2% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.75% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ramphastos ambiguus combines the genus name Ramphastos with the species epithet ambiguus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Ramphastos; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ramphastos sulfuratus, Ramphastos tucanus and Ramphastos vitellinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 36 species of the family Ramphastidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ramphastos sulfuratus. Its record count is 5.4 times the family average (52,570). The family Ramphastidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.