#1. Tucanuçu (Ramphastos toco) | Toco Toucan
Treasured by humans, feared by everything else alive
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During my final working week in December I had a couple free hours to spare since some of my students were already on their way for the usual holiday trips… so I decided to spend some extra lunch time at a park in downtown not far from the music school I teach at. A fairly big green area surrounded by busy avenues, it was being visited by only 3 brave runners frying under the summer noon sun that day; it couldn’t get any better for birdwatching without much of a human noise competition, so I jumped right in.
Following bem-te-vis’ (Pitangus sulphuratus | Great Kiskadee) alert calls, I started looking for a predator. A flash of white in a long tail passed me by; I took it by a carcará (Caracara plancus | Crested caracara), but never found it anyways.
Then I heard a “vuoooshhh” right above my head: there was the trickster, a bit of a show-off even.
Sometimes we don’t quite need to search; you just gotta be there for it to find you.
#1. Tucanuçu (Ramphastos toco) | Toco Toucan
