PLATE-BILLED MOUNTAIN-TOUCAN Andigena laminirostris Flying with Fruit on the Tandayapa Ridge, Ecuador. Toucan Photo by Peter Wendelken.

PLATE-BILLED MOUNTAIN-TOUCAN Andigena laminirostris. This Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan has just has just vaulted into flight with a ripe palm fruit in its bill tip near the top of a mountain ridge above Tandayapa in northwestern Ecuador at 10:29 AM on October 9, 2019. This toucan was eating fruit at this palm tree before this photo was taking.

It is possible that it is transporting the fruit to a nest to feed nestlings. If that is the case it might also be possible that it will regurgitate additional fruit which it has swallowed to feed the nestlings.

The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan belongs to the family Ramphastidae and lives in the Andes from southwestern Colombia to southern Ecuador.

Un Tucán Andino Piquilaminado Andigena laminirostris acaba de lanzarse en vuelo con una fruta madura de palmera en la punta de su pico cerca de una cresta montañosa por encima de Tandayapa en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 10 y 29 de la mañana el 9 de octubre de 2019.

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Taken in: Ecuador / Provincia de Pichincha / Nanegalito / Tandayapa (show map)

Taken on: October 9, 2019

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