Toucan, the

The toucan is a wild bird that inhabits most climates, but especially humid tree forests and wilderlands. It is characterized by its beak and shiney feathers and painted face and feathered tongue.
Many people are aware that the toucan has a feathered tongue. This causes many people to have alarm and fear of the toucan, which is ill-founded. The tongue is indeed feathered, but this does not pose a threat to humans. The tongue actually acts as a "dehumidifier" and keeps the beak of the bird perpetually dry, so that it can *snap* up berries and insects, such as weevels and cockroaches and sand gnats and flies.
The toucan was discovered in 1354 by the Polish scientist Odos Bopoliski, whilst on a fishing expedition in the south Atlantic, off of the coast of what was then called Igna Tera. He called the peculiar creature a toucan because of the shape of its beak and the funny sound it made. "Click, Clack, Hov-hov-hov-hee"
When he discovered the feathered tongue whisping about, he immediately deseased the toucan out of pure terror, and thus began the untrue facts concerning toucan danger that are so widely circulated in western culture, especially the inner cites like Paris and Cleveland.
Toucans actually are similar in many ways to flying saucers, in that many people fear them, but most of those people don't believe in them, and most other people just like to watch movies about them.
The toucan is a symbol of youth and good luck and autonomy and entirety in some cultures. Some famous toucans are Archiest and Ifaroc, who was actually a scientist. There was another toucan named Robin, who had a larger-than-normal beak.