The collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) dwells from S Mexico to W Ecuador.

41cm (16”), 230g. Slender, with long graduated tail; short rounded wings; large bill. Head, neck and chest glossy black; a narrow rufous nuchal collar; upperparts glossy dark olive; remiges and rectrices dark olive; rump and upper-tail coverts red; underparts bright yellow, suffused with red; a round black spot un upper breast; broad black band across upper belly, more or less mixed with red; thighs chestnut. Iris bright yellow, black spot behind pupil; facial skin black, shading to dull red behind the eye; upper mandible pale yellowish, maroon near base; stripe along culmen, tip, coarse serrations along tomium, lower mandible black; narrow white line encircles base of bill. Young: Duller: head and chest sooty-black; back brownish-olive; rump duller red; below pale yellow with indistinct breast-spot and band; bill without basal line and serrations.

The Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) is similar to the Collared Aracari, differing mainly in its strikingly colored bill. You can find it in Costa Rica and W Panama.

Plumage like the Collared Aracari, except for a line of deep chestnut separates the black of the head and dark green of the back; black spot on breast; red band across belly with a more or less broken black anterior border; facial skin red; lores black. Upper mandible deep orange to vermilion, shading to bright yellow-green at base; very small and white serrations on tomium; basal half of culmen and lower mandible black; white line encircles base. Iris and feet like Collared Aracari. Young: Duller; head sooty-black; back darker; below paler; breast-spot smaller and indistinct; belly-band mixed with black and rufous; no white line around bill; iris dull orangish.

The Yellow-eared Toucanet (Selenidera spectabilis) is the only sexually dimorphic Costa Rican Toucan. It is found from SE Honduras to NW Colombia.

36cm (14½”), 220g. ♂: Head and underparts glossy black, except long yellow ear-tufts; large tufts of yellow-orange on flanks; crissum red; upperparts olive-green; primaries blackish; tail bluish-slate. Iris deep red; facial skin bright yellow-green shading to turquoise above eye and to yellow-orange on malar area; upper mandible dull, pale greenish-yellow, a broad stripe along tomia and lower mandible entirely dusky-horn, shading to black on the tip; inside of bill vermilion; legs blue-gray. ♀: Similar except forehead, crown and hindneck deep chestnut; no ear-tufts. Young: Duller, below more sooty-black; belly tinged with olive; little or no orange on flanks or (male) yellow on head; crissum paler; crown and nape of female dark sooty-brown.