So Big Yet Small

You hear them long before you see them. The Keel-billed Toucan is a large bird, about the size of a Raven, yet they melt into the rainforest, disappearing with great ease. Perhaps that’s why they have those crazy colors, so they can find each other. It’s perhaps why they are so loud when they call. They are such a joy to watch as they go about gathering and eating the fruit high in the canopy. That massive mandible makes quick work of the protective shell on the fruit, you see it falling from the canopy as the Toucans feed. The aspect I love the most about them is when they do come down to our level, which is very infrequent, they appear to check us out as if we’re different, out of place in the rainforest. Of course, we are which makes me feel they are so big and we are yet small.