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  • We saw crocodiles; a family of spider monkeys swinging from a tree by their tails; keel-billed toucans; a tarantula, the size of a man's fist; a hard-shelled horned beetle, almost as big as the tarantula; and brown-speckled bats blending right into the tree bark from which they hung.

    Meg Pier: Guatemalan Jungle Reveals the Wisdom of the Maya's Tikal and Time Meg Pier 2011

  • Peering out my screen window I noticed lime-green-beaked keel-billed toucans, a half-dozen bouncing around in a tree.

    A Rio Runs Through It Nicholas Gill 2011

  • We saw crocodiles; a family of spider monkeys swinging from a tree by their tails; keel-billed toucans; a tarantula, the size of a man's fist; a hard-shelled horned beetle, almost as big as the tarantula; and brown-speckled bats blending right into the tree bark from which they hung.

    Meg Pier: Guatemalan Jungle Reveals the Wisdom of the Maya's Tikal and Time Meg Pier 2011

  • The keel-billed toucan was messing with us - looked right at the camera and just as I snapped the shutter, flew off!

    Sisters Exploring Belize Belizean' A New Trail 2009

  • The keel-billed toucan was messing with us - looked right at the camera and just as I snapped the shutter, flew off!

    Archive 2009-04-01 Belizean' A New Trail 2009

  • There are various bird species such as the keel-billed toucan (Ramphastus sulfuratus), black-chested jay or "chau-chau" (Cyanocorax affinis), Tangara gyrola, Arantinga wagleri, Pharomacrus fulgidus festatus, blue-knobbed curassow or "paujil" (Crax alberti), crested guan or "pava" (Penelope purpurascens brunnescens), Chlorostilbon russatus and Anthocephala floriceps floriceps.

    Santa Marta montane forests 2008

  • We kick off this segment with a keel-billed toucan.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006 2006

  • We kick off this segment with a keel-billed toucan.

    CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006 2006

  • We saw crocodiles; a family of spider monkeys swinging from a tree by their tails; keel-billed toucans; a tarantula, the size of a man's fist; a hard-shelled horned beetle, almost as big as the tarantula; and brown-speckled bats blending right into the tree bark from which they hung.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Meg Pier 2011

  • I had never seen a keel-billed toucan, which happens to be the favourite bird of my daughter, Erin.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

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