Western Andes from south-western Colombia (Patia Canyon, in Nariņo) south to southern Ecuador (southern possibly as far as R Chanchan).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.
Status NT
Habitat loss through deforestation due to intensive logging, human settlement, cattle-grazing, mining and coca and palm cultivation, and possibly illegal international cage-bird trade, are the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Plate-billed Mountain Toucan (Andigena laminirostris) [XC237965]
by Niels Krabbe from Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador (call, calls)
Plate-billed Mountain Toucan (Andigena laminirostris) [XC61403]
by Martin St-Michel from Bellavista, Pichincha, Ecuador (call, tongue-rattle and calls)