What is the population of toucans?
The IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered Species (iucnredlist.org) lists the status of 29 species of toucan, toucanette, or aracari (all close relatives). Twenty-six of them are listed as “least concern,” i.e., they have large, stable populations, and are in no danger of extinction. Three species (Saffron toucanette, plate-billed mountain toucan, and grey-breasted mountain toucan) are “near threatened,” meaning that their populations are shrinking a little bit, and these species may be threatened with becoming endangered if the trend continues. Because toucans aren’t endangered, no one has wasted scarce conservation resources counting them. The red list will give you an estimate of the size of their native range, but for most of the species, it just says that they are “common.
