Bibliography on Tucán, Ramphastos sulfuratus

Click to Enlarge Image

Photo by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth, using a NIKON D810, lens Nikon AF-Micro-NIKKOR 200mm f/4D IF-ED Macro; settings: f 8 speed 1/520, ISO 3,200.

---

 

Click to Enlarge Image

Photo by Sofia Monzón, using a Canon EOS 6D, lens Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM; settings: f 3.5, 1/160, ISO 1,250.

---

 

PDF, Articles, Books on Ramphastos sulfuratus

• DAVLANTES, Jason and Henry HOWE
• 2018
• Keel-billed Toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) on the ground in a tropical forest restoration experiment. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. Vol. 130, No. 3. Pages 770-773.
  
  Available online:
  https://wjoonline.org/doi/abs/10.1676/17-036.1?journalCode=wils

 

• DOMINGUEZ, Laura
• 2005
• Germinación de semillas de tres especies de Ficus ingeridas por vertebrados frugívoros. Universidad Veracruzana. 98 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.uv.mx/iif/files/2014/10/Tesis-Laura-Dominguez-MC.pdf

 

• GRAHAM, Catherine
• 2001
• Habitat selection and activity budgets of Keel-billed toucans at the landscape level. The Condor. Vol. 103, No. 4. Pages 776-784.
  
  Sold online:
  https://bioone.org/journals/the-condor/volume-103/issue-4/0010-5422(2001)103%5b0776%3aHSAABO%5d2.0.CO%3b2/Habitat-Selection-and-Activity-Budgets-of-Keel-Billed-Toucans-at/10.1650/0010-5422(2001)103[0776:HSAABO]2.0.CO;2.short

 

• GRAHAM, Catherine
• 2002
• Factors influencing movement patterns of Keel-Billed toucans in a fragments tropical landscape in Southern Mexico. Conservation Biology. Vol. 15, No. 6. Pages 1789-1798.
  
  Available online:
  https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.00070.x

 

• HOWELL, Steve and Sophie WEBB
• 1995
• A guide to the birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press. 1010 pages.
  
  Sold online:
  www.amazon.com/Guide-Mexico-Northern-Central-America/dp/0198540124

 

• KANTAK, Gail
• 1981
• Temporal feeding patterns of some tropical frugivores. Condor. Vol. 83. Pages 185-187.
  
  Available online:
  https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v083n02/p0185-p0187.pdf

 

• OTTEN, Benjamin, OROSZ, Susan, AUGE, Shannon and Donita FRAZIER
• 2001
• Mineral content of food items commonly ingested by Keel-billed toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus). Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery. Vol. 15, No. 3. Pages 194-196.
  
  Available online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2388102?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

• PATANÉ, J. S., WECKSTEIN, J. D., ALEIXO, A. and J. M. BATES
• 2009
• Evolutionary history of Ramphastos toucans: molecular phylogenetics, temporal diversification, and biogeography. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. Vol. 53, No. 3. Pages 923-934.
  
  Sold online:
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19699308

 

• BIDERMAN, John and Robert DICKERMAN
• 1978
• Feeding behavior and food habits of the Boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius). Biotropica. Vol. 10, No. 1. Pages 33-37.
  
  Available online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2388102?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

• REMSEN, J. V., HYDE, Mary and Angela CHAPMAN
• 1993
• The diets of neotropical trogons, motmots, barbets and toucans. The Condor. Vol. 95. Pages 178-192.
  
  Available online:
  www.pauldonahue.net/for_InkaNatura_guides/articles/diet_trogons_motmots_etc.pdf

 

• VALENTIN, Ingeborg
• 2008
• Determinación de valores de referencia para hematología, química sérica, fisiología y morfometría del tucán real (Ramphastos sulfuratus) en cautiverio en Guatemala. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 60 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.repositorio.usac.edu.gt/7157/1/Tesis%20Med%20Vet%20Ingeborg%20
  Renate%20Amanda%20Valentin%20Nicolescu.pdf

 

• WECKSTEIN, Jason
• 2006
• Molecular phylogenetics of the Ramphastos toucans: implications for the evolution of morphology, vocalizations, and coloration. The Auk. Vol. 123, No. 2. Pages 1191-1209.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/publication/232677074_Molecular_phylogenetics
  _of_the_Ramphastos_toucans_Implications_for_the_evolution_of
  _morphology_vocalizations_and_coloration

 

Suggested web pages with
with photos and information on Ramphastos sulfuratus

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ramphastos_sulfuratus/
Information.

http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especies/ficha/2/3509
Information.

www.iucnredlist.org/species/22682102/92931404
Conservation status.

https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/kebtou1/overview
Information.

www.naturalista.mx/taxa/18796-Ramphastos-sulfuratus
Photos and map location.

   

First posted August, 2019

Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica.