Are making regular appearance at the rancho for breakfast in the mornings. They are a cousin to the toucan, but their beak isn't the same green/yellow that the toucan has. And the toucans don't slum it with us at breakfast.Still, the Collared Arakari are very pretty birds and tend to travel in groups of four, five, six, seven or more.
We put out plantains (they're like bananas) daily before breakfast and get quite the spectrum of birds for folks to watch while they're enjoying their breakfast.
Many times, the Arakari will bite off, literally, more than it can chew and will flip the plantain back and forth in its beak until it dissolves into a manageable bite.
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