Selenidera piperivora
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The Guianan toucanet, or Guyana toucanet (Selenidera piperivora) is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The Guianan toucanet was originally described as Ramphastos piperivorus It was later named Selenidera culik but following early 21st century scholarship achieved its current (2022) binomial Selenidera piperivora.
The Guianan toucanet is monotypic. The Guianan toucanet is 33 to 35 cm (13 to 14 in) long. Males weigh 129 to 159 g (4.6 to 5.6 oz) and females 132 to 165 g (4.7 to 5.8 oz). Males and females have the same bill pattern but the female's bill is shorter. The bill has a yellowish line at its base. Both the maxilla and mandible are mostly black with red bases; the red extends further on the mandible. Both sexes have bare blue skin around the eye and a tuft of yellow feathers behind the blue. Males are black on the crown, nape, throat, breast and belly. They have a gold "collar" on their upper back; the rest of their upperparts are green. Their tail is green with chestnut tips to the feathers. Their undertail coverts are red. Adult females... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Diego Zoo Safari Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Wildlife World Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Dierenpark Hoenderdaell | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 4 | Houston Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Bali Bird Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 6 | Universeum | 🇸🇪 Sweden | |
| 7 | OdySea Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Bird Kingdom | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 9 | Butterfly World | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Landgoed Hoenderdaell | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 11 | Layton Aquarium & Wildlife | 🇺🇸 United States |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Guianan Toucanet sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 85 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 49th most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Guianan Toucanet in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against about 20% in November and December, the lowest months. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Guianan Toucanet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Brownsberg Nature Park, in our data
Brownsberg Nature Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Guianan Toucanet sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Ramphastidae
The closest relatives of the Guianan Toucanet that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Ramphastidae, Toucans) are White-throated Toucan (about 30%), Channel-billed Toucan (about 30%) and Green Aracari (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Guianan Toucanet is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (85 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
