Ramphastos sulfuratus
Drawn from open occurrence records inside Arenal, aggregated onto a 10 km grid.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
The keel-billed toucan wears the most improbable object in the rainforest on the front of its face: a banana-sized bill in green, orange, red and sky blue that weighs almost nothing, being a foam of keratin struts an engineer would sign. The bill is a fruit-picker's reach tool, a radiator for shedding heat, and a fencing foil in the toucan's frequent, faintly ridiculous bill-wrestling matches. Common through Caribbean-slope lowlands of Costa Rica, they cross gaps between trees in a flap-and-glide undulation, croaking like frogs, and a fruiting fig can collect half a dozen at once, tossing fruit back into their throats with a flick that never misses.
Small flocks moving canopy to canopy; roosts communally in cavities, folding the bill along the back and becoming, absurdly, compact.
Fruiting figs and cecropias at forest edge, early morning. The bill blows highlights before anything else; expose for it and let the black body go dark.
Do not bait toucans to lodges with fruit platters near nests of other birds; toucans raid nests, and feeding stations can concentrate that pressure.