Saffron toucanet

It looks like no other toucan: saffron all over, a yolk yellow that against the light is the first thing the canopy gives up. The rump and the bare skin around the eye run to green, the bill is red and the iris pale yellow. The tail, long for a toucan.

It lives in the canopy and eats ripe fruit. It uses that long serrated bill to cut it and swallow it whole, and then, in flight, it goes on sowing the forest with the seeds it drops. It fills in with insects when it needs protein, with nectar when it needs sugar, and now and then — without ceremony — with the nestlings of other birds.