- Chestnut-eared Aracari
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Chestnut-eared Aracari 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Ramphastidae Genus: Pteroglossus Species: P. castanotis Binomial name Pteroglossus castanotis
Gould, 1834The Chestnut-eared Aracari, Pteroglossus castanotis, is a bird native to central and south-eastern South America. It belongs to the toucan and aracari family (Ramphastidae). P. castanotis is a larger, more colorful bird than the Black-necked Aracari (P. aracari), which it otherwise resembles.
The range of the Chestnut-eared Aracari is the southern Amazon Basin, especially the southwestern of this region. It is also found in the eastern Andean foothills; a narrowing range extension enters central-southern Colombia by 900 kilometres (560 mi).
The southern Amazon Basin range narrows in the southeast to only the upstream half-headwaters of the north-flowing Amazon River tributaries. This range continues southeastwards into the central and southern cerrado and ends in the Paraná River region in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil and the extreme northeast of Argentina.[2]
Ischnoceran lice found on the Chestnut-eared Aracari were first described as Austrophilopterus cancellosus castanotus, but these parasites are actually indistinguishable from those on most other Pteroglossus, and today united with them in Austrophilopterus flavirostris.[3]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Pteroglossus castanotis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 18 September 2007.
- ^ Glayson Ariel Bencke (June 22, 2007). "Avifauna atual do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: aspectos biogeográficos e distribucionais" (PDF). [The Recent avifauna of Rio Grande do Sul: Biogeographical and distributional aspects]. Quaternário do RS: integrando conhecimento. Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. http://www6.ufrgs.br/alpp/Resumos_Quaternario_RS.pdf.
- ^ Roger D. Price & Jason D. Weckstein (2005). "The genus Austrophilopterus Ewing (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from toucans, toucanets, and araçaris (Piciformes: Ramphastidae)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa 918: 1–18. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z00918f.pdf.
External links
- Chestnut-eared Aracari videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Chestnut-eared Aracari photo gallery VIREO
- Photo-High Res; Article tropicalbirding–"Southeast Brazil"
- Photo-Medium Res; Photo and Species analysis www.nfss.org–"Chestnut Eared Aracari"
Media related to Pteroglossus castanotis at Wikimedia Commons
Toucans, toucanets, and araçaris (family: Ramphastidae) Genus Aulacorhynchus
(green toucanets)Selenidera
(dichromatic toucanets)Andigena
(mountain toucans)Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan • Hooded Mountain Toucan • Plate-billed Mountain Toucan • Black-billed Mountain ToucanPteroglossus
(araçaris or aracaris)Saffron Toucanet • Green Aracari • Lettered Aracari • Collared Aracari • Black-necked Aracari • Chestnut-eared Aracari • Many-banded Aracari • Ivory-billed Aracari • Curl-crested Aracari • Red-necked Aracari • Brown-mandibled Aracari • Fiery-billed Aracari • Stripe-billed Aracari • Pale-mandibled AracariRamphastos
(true toucans)Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Pteroglossus
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of the Cerrado
- Birds of the Pantanal
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Ecuador
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of Bolivia
- Birds of Argentina
- Piciformes stubs
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