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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Channel-billed Toucan]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Lesser Antillean Bullfinch]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:Yellow-ridged toucan.jpg|thumb|160px|left|Yellow-ridged Toucan (''R. v. culminatus'')<br />Photo by {{user|obasanmi|obasanmi}}<br />Amazonas, [[Brazil]], June 2006]] | + | [[Image:Lesser_Antillean_Bullfinch.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Photo by {{user|Richard+Fray|Richard Fray}}<br />[[St. Lucia]], February 2004]] |
| | + | ==Identification== |
| | + | Overall black to slate-gray color, interrupted by rufous on the throat, just in front of eye, and in most races on undertail coverts (undertail black in [[Martinique]] and [[St. Lucia]]). The female is a sandy gray-brown with rufous coloring to the wings and tail and greyish underparts. The head of the female is the same color as the mantle. Legs in both sexes are greyish to black, not pink |
| | + | ==Distribution== |
| | + | Used to be endemic to the [[Lesser Antilles]] but has now spread to the [[US Virgin Islands]] (part of the [[Puerto Rico]] bank) and is a vagrant to Puerto Rico. It is absent from the [[Grenadines]] but present on [[Grenada]]. |
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| - | ;[[:Category:Ramphastos|Ramphastos]] vitellinus | |
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| - | A medium-large Toucan with a total length of 45-55 cm. (18-22 in). Males are larger and longer-billed than females.<br /> | |
| - | The belly, upperparts, tail and most of the bill are black and the crissum is red. There are several subspecies (''see Distribution & Taxonomy''), most of which differ greatly in the remaining plumage and colour of base and ridge of the large bill. | |
| - | It is widespread in tropical [[South America]]: found in [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], [[French Guiana]], [[Bolivia]] and [[Brazil]]. | |
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| - | '''[''[[Channel-billed Toucan|Read More...]]'']''' | + | '''[''[[Lesser Antillean Bullfinch|Read More...]]'']''' |
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[edit] Identification
Overall black to slate-gray color, interrupted by rufous on the throat, just in front of eye, and in most races on undertail coverts (undertail black in Martinique and St. Lucia). The female is a sandy gray-brown with rufous coloring to the wings and tail and greyish underparts. The head of the female is the same color as the mantle. Legs in both sexes are greyish to black, not pink
[edit] Distribution
Used to be endemic to the Lesser Antilles but has now spread to the US Virgin Islands (part of the Puerto Rico bank) and is a vagrant to Puerto Rico. It is absent from the Grenadines but present on Grenada.
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