Abstract
The following is a preliminary report on a breeding
program concerning the family Ramphastidae or
Toucans as they are commonly known. It i based
upon five years of successful rearing of fir t and second
generation Crimson-rumped Toucanets, Aulacorphynchus
haematopygus, and the application of ob erved
factors to other represented pecies of the family. To
date we have had 17 successful nestings of Crim onrumped
Toucanets including the rearing of full econd
generation birds. Over the past six months these techniques
have been applied to other species of Toucans
with the following results: Pale-mandibled Aracaris,
Pteroglossus erythropygius - 3 nesting , 9 eggs, 6
hatched; Curl-crested Aracaris, P. beauharnaesii - 3
nestings, 6 eggs, infertile; Plate-billed Mountain Toucan,
Andigena laminirostris, 2 pairs - 3 nestings, 1
hatching, 23 days; Swainson's Toucans Ramplzastos
swain anii, actively ne ting; Toco Toucans, R. taco -
I fertile egg. Once properly set up, every pair of
Toucans we have worked with have readily shown an
interest in breeding and all but one pair have...