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BARBETS
- CAPITONIDAE and TOUCAN-BARBETS - SEMNORNITHIDAE
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Scarlet-crowned
Barbet
Capito
aurovirens
Sacha Lodge,
Orellana province,
Ecuador.
Male.
A barbet of
secondary forest and lighter woodland. (D3) |
 | Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Male. Found mainly in southern Amazonian Brazil, barely reaching Bolivia. (S8) |
 | Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus maculicoronatus El Valle de Antón, Coclé province, Panama. Male
on the left and female on the right; a more detailed photo of the same
female is below. This species is restricted to Panama and NW Colombia.
There are two subspecies; the one in the first two shots is endemic to
W Panama; it has orange rather than red flanks along with some other
minor differences. (S8) |
 | Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus maculicoronatus El Valle de Antón, Coclé province, Panama. Female. (S8) |
 | Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus rubrilateralis Trail between El Valle and Utría National Park, Chocó department, Colombia. A
family group. I think the female at the bottom is the mother, the male
at the right is the father, and the others are young birds. This
red-flanked subspecies is found in eastern Panama and NW Colombia. It
was
a hard bird to photograph since it always stayed high in the canopy.
(S8) |
 | Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus rubrilateralis Trail between El Valle and Utría National Park, Chocó department, Colombia. Male. (S8) |
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Orange-fronted
Barbet
Capito
squamatus
Pacto-Guayllabillas road, Pichincha province, Ecuador
Male. This handsome species is nearly endemic
to western
Ecuador, but it it does just get into southeastern Colombia.
(S5) |
 | Orange-fronted
Barbet
Capito
squamatus
R-io Palenque Science Station, Los Ríos province, Ecuador. Female. (S7) |
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White-mantled
Barbet
Capito
hypoleucus
RNA Arrierito Antioqueño, Anorí, Antioquia
department, Colombia.
Male. This barbet is endemic to a fairly small
area of central Colombia. (D3) |
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Five-colored
Barbet
Capito
quinticolor
San Francisco, Esmeraldas
province, Ecuador.
Male.
A Chocó
endemic. In Ecuador, it only occurs in the far northwest near the
border with Colombia. It is still surprisingly common in very
disturbed forest south of San Lorenzo. This bird appeared to have a large tick above hsi right eye. He was singing. (S8) |
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Five-colored
Barbet
Capito
quinticolor
Humedal de
Yalare, Esmeraldas
province, Ecuador.
Male. (D3) |
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Gilded
Barbet
Capito
auratus punctatus
Sani Lodge, Sucumbíos province,
Ecuador.
Male. (S8) |
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Gilded
Barbet
Capito
auratus punctatus
Sani Lodge, Sucumbíos province,
Ecuador.
Female on left, male on right. (S8) |
 | Lemon-throated
Barbet
Eubucco
richardsoni
richardsoni
Sani Lodge, Sucumbíos province, Ecuador.
Male. This species lives in terra firme
forest in the
western Amazon. (S8) |
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Lemon-throated
Barbet
Eubucco
richardsoni
richardsoni
Yasuní Research Station, Orellana province, Ecuador.
Female. It's normally a canopy species, but this one came
down quite low to feed in a small melastome tree by the side of a
road. (S6) |
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Red-headed
Barbet
Eubucco
bourcierii aequatorialis
Tandayapa
Bird Lodge, Pichincha province,
Ecuador.
Male.
The aequatorialis
race is almost endemic
to western Ecuador, with males sporting more extensive red and
brighter yellow underparts than other races.
(S7) |
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Red-headed
Barbet
Eubucco
bourcierii aequatorialis
Tandayapa
Bird Lodge, Pichincha province,
Ecuador.
Female.
(S7) |
 | Versicolored Barbet Eubucco versicolor versicolor Manu road near San Pedro, Cusco region, Peru. Male. An especially brightly-colored barbet from Andean cloudforest in Peru and Bolivia. (S8) |
TOUCAN-BARBETS - SEMNORNITHIDAENow treated as a separate family from the other New World barbets.
 | Toucan
Barbet
Semnornis
ramphastinus ramphastinus
Refugio Paz
de las Aves,
Pichincha province, Ecuador.
This gaudy bird is one of the iconic species of the mountains of NW Ecuador and SW Colombia. (S8) |
 | Toucan
Barbet
Semnornis
ramphastinus ramphastinus
Refugio Paz
de las Aves,
Pichincha province, Ecuador.
They sometimes visit banana feeders at Angel Paz's reserve. (S8) |
 | Toucan
Barbet
Semnornis
ramphastinus ramphastinus
Tandayapa Bird Lodge,
Pichincha, Ecuador.
Now a regular visitor at the lodge. (S8) |
 | Prong-billed
Barbet
Semnornis
franzii
La Cinchona,
Heredia provinca,
Costa Rica.
Along with the Toucan Barbet above, the only other member of the Semnornithidae. It's
amazing how these
two sister species evolved so differently. Why would one evolve
such bright and gaudy colors, and the other one turn out so much
plainer? Their voices are quite similar, however.
(D3) |
 | Prong-billed
Barbet
Semnornis
franzii
Bosque de Paz, Alajuela province, Costa Rica.
A family group. (S8) |
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