The Toco Toucan

Toco Toucans are known for their iconic multi-colored long beaks, which allow them to easily pick fruit off of trees. They have dark feathers which enable them to camouflage in the shadows, and four-toed feet which allow them to securely cling onto tree branches. Due to climate change, the Amazon may very well experience droughts or even floods due to rising sea levels. This would cause a noticeable decrease in vegetation, and therefore a decrease in available fruits for the Toucan to maintain its diet. This would consequently cause the Toucan to acquire a sharper, more curved beak which would enable them to consume a more carnivorous diet consisting of insects or even smaller animals. Floods would cause them to evolve aquatic features such as webbed feet to traverse wetlands. They could also develop larger eyes to spot predators from farther away, since they would be exposed without cover.