Keel-billed Toucans
The keel-billed toucan eats fruit in the rain forests where it lives. Often the fruit grows on little twigs that can’t hold the weight of the big bird. So the toucan uses the tip of its long beak to pick the fruit. Then it tosses back its head and gulps it down whole.
A toucan’s beak can grow to be a third of the length of the entire bird.
The toucan’s long tongue has the shape and look of a feather.
Toucans are important to the rain forest. The seeds in the fruits the eat get carried inside them to other parts of the forest. After toucans swallow fruit, they throw up big seeds or poop out smaller seeds as they move around the forest. Those seeds fall to the ground and then can grow to become new trees.
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