An Aggressive Aracari Dominates the Papaya at Canopy Lodge | Nov 9, 2022 | Cornell Lab

Collared Aracaris (pronounced "are-a-SAR-ees") often travel in small groups, foraging together on fruit and other food that they encounter, and usually everyone seems to get along just fine. However, in this clip, one individual takes aggressive action against a neighbor, using his bill to grasp the other individual's head and shake him. Later, the dominant individual again strikes out at the same bird, who appears to be shying away from the food and the aggressive bird. These kind of interactions help maintain a hierarchy within the group when resources are less available, and are a normal part of aracari social life.
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About the Site
The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is located on the grounds of the Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Antón, Panama. This site is just over 2,000 ft above sea level in the low mountains of Cerro Gaital, with a mild springtime climate year-round. A small stream called Rio Guayabo runs past the feeders in the background, and the lush landscaping of the Canopy Lodge grounds grade into the forested slopes around them. The feeding table is around 40 feet from the main lodge, and is one of several feeders provisioned throughout the day so that guests to the lodge are greeted to spectacular views of many of the common birds found in this ecosystem.
About the Canopy Lodge
The Canopy Lodge is a full service lodge specializing in nature tourism with a focus on birds. It is about 60 miles west of Panama City in the picturesque village of El Valle de Antón, right in the center of the gigantic crater of an extinct volcano. This is the largest inhabited crater in the Western Hemisphere and second only to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. It is surrounded by the Cerro Gaital Natural Monument.
Canopy Lodge is one of a series of three ecotourism ventures developed by the Canopy Family. The first, Canopy Tower, involved transforming a former U.S. radar station overlooking the Panama Canal in Soberanía National Park into a unique birding lodge embedded in the canopy of the surrounding forest. Their newest property, Canopy Camp, offers a taste of some of the wildest lowland rainforest in Panama in the Darién region.
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[@megansfo]

I love Toucans and Aricaris. Such characters! 💛

[@staufferfamily9629]

Oh wow, they really like their papaya! 😄 Funny birds to watch!

[@tracy9610]

Haha! They have a lot of character. Is the papaya “no good” after it hits the ground? They seem to lose interest.

[@sherrywebber4013]

How cute!! They all want to eat it!! The one was VERY good at getting the meat then ... I'll just eat the shell!! 🤭🤣😂🤣

[@emilyashton3739]

First attack 2:55
Second attack 3:40

[@NEntv58]

papaya rules.

[@codeyyoung6053]

Those are pretty sweet