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Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Swainson's Toucan)

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Swainson's Toucan)

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Chestnut-mandibled Toucan, or Swainson’s Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii) is a near-passerine bird which breeds from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia to western Ecuador. This subspecies is replaced from southern Colombia to eastern Peru by the nominate subspecies Black-mandibled Toucan, R. ambiguus ambiguus. The SACC and NACC of the AOU have recently indicated (in 2010) that these birds should be classified as conspecific. The scientific and alternative English names commemorate the English ornithologist and artist William Swainson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut-mandibled_Toucan

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