Chestnut-eared Aracari
A species of Aracaris Scientific name : Pteroglossus castanotis Genus : Aracaris
Chestnut-eared Aracari, A species of Aracaris
Botanical name: Pteroglossus castanotis
Genus: Aracaris
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Description
The chestnut-eared aracari, or chestnut-eared araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis), is a bird native to central and south-eastern South America. It belongs to the toucan and aracari family (Ramphastidae). The chestnut-eared aracari is a larger, more colorful bird than the black-necked aracari, which it otherwise resembles. 
Size
47 cm
Feeding Habits
Chestnut-eared Aracari mainly consumes tree fruits, often acrobatically hanging upside-down to feed. Their varied diet also includes flower nectar, nuts, insects, and sometimes bird eggs and nestlings, mirroring saffron toucanet predation habits.
Habitat
Chestnut-eared Aracari is typically found in diverse forested habitats including wet forests near lakes and rivers, varzea flooded areas, forest islands, swampy regions, and gallery forests. It thrives in various stages of forest succession and is also present in secondary forests, edges, and disturbed regions, demonstrating adaptability to modified landscapes such as plantations and farms. Its range extends to habitats like dense bamboo, cerrado, coffee plantations, and occasionally woodland patches in the Pantanal. Chestnut-eared Aracari predominantly occupies altitudes below 600 meters but can be found up to 1200–1300 meters in Andean regions and over 1000 meters in certain parts of Brazil.
Dite type
Frugivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
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, Bolivia, southeastern Brazil and the extreme northeast of Argentina. It is very present in Bolivia, notably in the Aquicuana Reserve, located in the Beni Department, near the city of Riberalta, the Capital of the Bolivian Amazon.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
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