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Keel-billed Toucan

Ramphastos sulfuratus · Family Ramphastidae

Ramphastos sulfuratus

Family Ramphastidae

Order
Piciformes
Family
Ramphastidae
GBIF occurrence records
365,814
Countries and territories with records
17
Keel-billed Toucan
Ttschleuder · Keel billed toucan costa rica (cropped).jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ttschleuder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña (charro) · Ramphastos_sulfuratus_audio_observation_charro_401730.ogg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña (charro) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 365,814 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (42.1%), Panama (21%), Belize (14.4%), Mexico (7.8%) and Guatemala (4.9%); together they account for 90.2% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.59% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Ramphastos sulfuratus combines the genus name Ramphastos with the species epithet sulfuratus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Ramphastos; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ramphastos ambiguus, Ramphastos tucanus and Ramphastos vitellinus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 36 species of the family Ramphastidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 7 times the family average (52,570). The family Ramphastidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Ramphastidae

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