Spot-billed toucanet

The spot-billed toucanet (Selenidera maculirostris) is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae.

Both sexes have bare green-yellow to blue skin around the eye and a golden-yellow tuft of feathers behind it; both are paler in the female.

Adult males have a black head, nape, chin, throat, and belly.

[6] The spot-billed toucanet is found in Brazil from the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais south and into eastern Paraguay and Argentina's Misiones Province.

[6] The spot-billed toucanet forages from the undergrowth up to the forest's mid-storey, singly, in pairs, or in small groups.

In the wild it nests in tree cavities, and both sexes provision young birds, but almost nothing else is known about its natural breeding biology.

In captivity the clutch size is two or three, the incubation period is about 15 days, and time to fledging is about six to seven weeks.