Today we meet Costa Rica’s largest species of toucan. The blue-footed, large-beaked, incessant singing chestnut-mandibled toucan. Let’s start with the name game. The chestnut-mandibled toucan ...

Images of the disfigured Costa Rican toucan Grecia, which lost most of its upper beak in an apparent attack, appeared last year in hundreds of news outlets around the world. Now a Discovery Networks ...

Sandwiched between two continents and two seas, Costa Rica is a biogeographical bridge bursting with life and natural wonders. For such a small country, it offers some of the finest and most varied ...

COSTA RICA - We all stared wide-eyed at a black-mandibled toucan perched 23-feet in front of us while its outsized, brightly colored beak scooped up chunks of bananas as though eating ice cream. Kathy ...

Thanks to some innovative technology, Grecia's new beak will help him eat on his own again There’s good news for Grecia the toucan. The Costa Rican bird, who was tortured by vandals that severed his ...

On Sept. 14th, Costa Ricans around the world built lanterns then participated in the parade of lanterns aka Desfile de Los Paroles to acknowledge independence from Spanish rule. In metropolitan ...

“Toucans!” shouts Paolo. I jolt forward, my seatbelt snapping to attention as he slams on the brakes and cranks the car into reverse, tyres kicking up dust as we pull off the road and fling open the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australians have been outraged by the controversy surrounding the live baiting greyhound scandal that has engulfed that sport since the ...

Grecia lost half of his beak after a group of youths attacked the bird; the incident sparked international outrage. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Animal Planet is set to tell the story ...

A Costa Rican toucan, which had its beak snapped off by children, is to be fitted with a prosthetic beak produced by 3D printing Veterinarian Carmen Soto cleans the toucan's beak after it was attacked ...