Brown-headed barbet

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Brown-headed barbet
Brown headed barbet.jpg
Calls recorded in Bharatpur, India

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Megalaimidae
Genus: Psilopogon
Species:
P. zeylanicus
Binomial name
Psilopogon zeylanicus
(Gmelin, 1788)
Synonyms

Megalaima zeylanica[2]

The Brown-headed barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) is an Asian barbet species native to the Indian subcontinent, where it inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. It is widespread, with its range stretching from the Terai in southern Nepal in the north to Sri Lanka in the south, encompassing most of peninsular India, and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.[1] It is an arboreal species of gardens and wooded country which eats fruit and insects. It is fairly tolerant of humans and often seen in city parks. It nests in a tree hole, laying 2-4 eggs. It forages on mangoes, ripe jackfruit, papaya, banana, figs and similar cultivated fruit trees. Its habitat includes urban and country gardens; it tends to eschew heavy forest. It nests in a suitable hole in a tree that it will often excavate. Both sexes incubate the eggs and often communicate with each other using their Kura, kura calls.[2]

Brown-headed barbet in Chandigarh

The adult has a streaked brown head, neck and breast, and a yellow eye patch. The rest of the plumage is green. It is 27 cm (11 in) long with a large head, short neck and short tail.

Its call is a repetitive kutroo…kutroo…kutroo, but silent in the winter. Others take up the call when one starts.

References[]

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Psilopogon zeylanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681597A92912739. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681597A92912739.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Ali, Sálim; Daniel, J. C. (2002). The Book of Indian Birds (Thirteenth ed.). New Delhi: Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press. p. 194. ISBN 9780195665239.

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