Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis)
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Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis) |
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| Pictures (click on them to enlarge) | ||
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 Acai © Dominiek Plouvier |  © Paul Woei |  first known nest photo in Suriname © Dough Gochfeld |
 Kumbu (Oenocarpus) © Steven Wytema |  female © Tomas Willems |  male © Ton Plug |
 © Dennis Binda |  male © Jan Hein Ribot |  © Dominiek Plouvier |
 female © Dominiek Plouvier |  © K.D. Dijkstra |  male at nest, young were heard, April © Armida Madngisa nature guide |
 female at nest © Armida Madngisa nature guide |
| Green Aracaris and all Toucans are mainly birds of the forest, where they are easily spotted, by their colors and big bill,
but also because of the many sounds they make. The bill is used for picking fruit and berries,
it gives them a greater reach. Toucans nest in tree hollows, but of the Green Araçaris no nest has
been found in Suriname before 2012, although the birds themselves are common.
Then Dough Gochfeld of the New Jersey Audubon Society made a beautiful picture
of a Green Aracari at its nest in April 2012 at Bakkie (see photo 3). In April 2024 Armida Madgnisa saw a pair of Green Aracaris use a nest in a termite nest. She could hear the young. The sound of a Green Araçari was recorded by Alexandre Renaudier in French Guiana near Mana in December 2007. Dominiek Plouvier writes: 'A pair of green aracaris eats podosiri (Acai, first photo), the most important food for a lot of animals and also for man: Aucaners harvest podosiri and sell it in Commewijne. The price of a little bag reflects the scarcity: a time of shortage in august, september with higher prices (then 2021:50 srd in October 35 srd) but.. ala san kon moro diri. They climb the trees and make so a sustainable use of the forest.' The drawing by Paul Woei was made in Suriname in 1989 and a photo by KD Dijkstra is from 2007. Then follows the important nest photo by Dough Gochfeld and a picture of a female Green Aracari (with brown head) eating palmfruit, made by Steven Wytema in Suriname. The video of an eating aracari was made by Dominiek Plouvier. It eats the fruits of a Tingi-moni tree (Protium sp.) He writes:'I am no expert, but they eat the white arillum from around the seeds, just as they eat other fruits. I suspect they eat seed and arillum en defecate elswhere.Or they drop the seed immediately. Or both. Lots to learn.. This way they help the distribution of seeds Dominiek also made the second video of a female and a male eatin Acai (Euterpe oleacea). |
| Birdsounds (click on them to listen) | ||
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| Sound recording of a Green Aracari © Alexandre Renaudier |
| Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see) | ||
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| Video recording of a Green Aracari © ; | Video recording of a Green Aracari © ; |
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| Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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| The 333 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 1 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |
