This is Bird Note.

Some birds seem like they came straight out of the mind of a cartoonist.

The Kiel-built Tukan, also known as the Rainbow-Build Tukan, looks like a bird with a giant banana for a beak.

They have a black body, a yellow patch from the face to the breast, and a huge rainbow-colored bill.

These tropical beauties flaunt their colors from the jungles of southern Mexico to Venezuela.

Their songs set the mood at my in archaeological ruins

like those of Kalakmool in Mexico.

In Belize, the Kiel-2 camp is so cherished that they named the species their national bird when they gained independence in 1981.

The Rainbow Bill Tukan feeds mostly on fruits.

They halt them with their beaks, tilt their heads backward and chomp down.

These two cans aren't skilled at flying,

preferring to hop from branch to branch.

They don't like being alone either.

They move in groups of 6 to 30 birds.

And when living together creates some friction, they use your beaks as swords and dueling.

Those big beaks aren swords and dueling.

Those big beaks aren't just for fighting, though.

All the blood flowing through the beak helps two cans regulate their body temperature

in the tropical heat.

So there's more than one way to use that impressive beak.

For Bird Note, I'm Lucina Melesio.