The toucan is easily recognizable by its oversized, colorful bill and is found in many tropical rainforests, including the Amazon. Both females and males use their 19-centimeter-long bills to catch food, flinging fruit to one another during a mating ritual fruit toss and using it to reach up to high branches for the fruit. They also use their bill to peel fruit and catch insects, young birds, eggs and even lizards. The showy bill probably only deters predators because of its size , as it is a honeycomb construction that would be little use as a weapon. Their feathers look mainly black but have a greenish shimmer over them, with a white front and red under side of their tail. Their bright colors act as camouflage in the dappled light of the rain forest canopy, but they are usually noisy, so not well hidden. Toucans live in small flocks of about six birds. They nest in tree holes and usually have two to four eggs a year, which both parents care for. The small bill that young toucans are born with grows as they develop and does not become full size for several months. Indigenous people look upon the bird as sacred where they are traditionally seen as channel between the worlds of the living and the spirits.