Plate-billed mountain toucan in Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
Plate-billed mountain toucan in Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador (© Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures)
A plate-billed mountain toucan
In honor of National Bird Day, observed every year on January 5, we're at the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve in the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, a 2000-acre conservation area that was established in 1981. Bellavista is located at high-altitude, in the northwestern Andes mountains, and is home to a huge variety of bird species, including the plate-billed mountain toucan you see here.
© Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures