Mountain toucan

Andigena, the mountain toucans, is a genus of birds in the family Ramphastidae. They are found in humid highland forests in the Andes of South America, ranging from Bolivia to Venezuela. These medium-sized toucans all have olive-brown upperparts, a black crown, yellow rump, blue-grey underparts and a red vent.

Mountain toucan
Plate-billed mountain toucan Andigena laminirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Ramphastidae
Genus:	Andigena Gould, 1851
Type species
Pteroglossus hypoglaucus[1] Gould, 1833
Species
4, see text

Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

Genus Andigena – Gould, 1851 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Grey-breasted mountain toucan	Andigena hypoglauca (Gould, 1833) Two subspecies A. h. hypoglauca (Gould, 1833) A. h. lateralis (Chapman, 1923)	Southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Plate-billed mountain toucan	Andigena laminirostris Gould, 1851	Western Ecuador and far south-western Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Hooded mountain toucan	Andigena cucullata (Gould, 1846)	South-eastern Peru to central Bolivia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-billed mountain toucan	Andigena nigrirostris (Waterhouse, 1839) Three subspecies A. n. nigrirostris (Waterhouse, 1839) A. n. occidentalis (Chapman, 1915) A. n. spilorhynchus (Gould, 1858)	Western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

Former species

Some authorities, either presently or formerly, recognize additional species or subspecies as species belonging to the genus Andigena including:

• Saffron toucanet (as Andigena bailloni)^[2]