See text The golden-collared toucanet (Selenidera reinwardtii) is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae.

[5][3][6] Both subspecies have at times been treated as separate species, and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) continues to do so.

Their eye is surrounded by bare blue skin (greener in S. r. langsdorffii) and a golden-yellow tuft of feathers protrudes behind it.

Adult females replace the male's black with chestnut; their facial tuft and flanks are duller, and the yellow band on the back is narrower.

[8] The golden-collared toucanet subspecies' bills differ; within each the sexes have the same pattern, but the female's is shorter.

[8] The nominate subspecies of golden-collared toucanet is found from south-central and southeastern Colombia (near the Brazilian border) south through eastern Ecuador into north-central and northeastern Peru.

S. r. langsdorffii is found from north-central and northeastern Peru and western Brazil south into northwestern Bolivia.

[8] The golden-collared toucanet forages singly, in pairs, or in groups of up to four, and from the forest's understory to the canopy.

[8] The golden-collared toucanet breeds between March and July in Colombia and Ecuador and from June to December in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.

[1][2] The species is considered uncommon to fairly common in different parts of its range and occurs in several protected areas.