page_title: Collared aracari
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Collared aracari / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Collared Aracari photo taken at Selva Verde Lodge, Costa Rica.
context_page_description: The collared aracari or collared araçari is a toucan, a near-passerine bird. It breeds from southern Mexico to Panama; also Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
context_section_description: Like other toucans, the collared aracari is brightly marked and has a large bill. The adult is typically 39–41 cm (15.5–16 in) long and weighs 190–275 g (6.7–9.7 oz) The sexes are alike in appearance, with a black head and chest and dark olive green upperparts, apart from a red rump and upper tail. There is reddish collar on the rear neck which gives rise to the English  and scientific (torquatus) names. The underparts are bright yellow, with a round black spot in the centre of the breast and a red-tinted black band across the belly. The thighs are chestnut.
  The bare facial skin is black, becoming ruddy behind the yellow eye. The upper mandible of the bill is dull yellow, marked with a black saw-tooth pattern on the cutting edge, and a black tip. The lower mandible is black, and the legs are green.
  Juvenile collared aracaris are much duller, with sooty-black head and brownish green upperparts. The red rump and yellow underparts are paler, and the breast spot, belly band and bill pattern are indistinct.
  The call of the collared aracari is a loud, sharp pseek, or peeseek.
caption: The red collar, which gives the bird its name, is visible on the back of the neck of this Costa Rican bird.
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