Toucans eat ripe fruit, insects, snakes, and nestlings of small birds.  Toucans eat brightly colored fruit that is easy to find.  Toucans use the end of their bills to take off chunks of fruit.

             Toucans have large brightly colored bills which are hollow.  Some of the colors on the bills may be black, blue, brown, green, red, white, yellow, or a combination of colors.  Most of the toucans are black and yellow and sometimes have a blue eye.
    So, if you travel to the rain forest you might see over 40 types of toucans,  such as a toco toucan or green billed toucan.
 
 

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