Scarlet-crowned Barbet
A species of Gray-billed New World Barbets Scientific name : Capito aurovirens Genus : Gray-billed New World Barbets
Scarlet-crowned Barbet, A species of Gray-billed New World Barbets
Botanical name: Capito aurovirens
Genus: Gray-billed New World Barbets
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Description
Photo By Nikolaj Mølgaard Thomsen
Description
The scarlet-crowned barbet (Capito aurovirens) is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae. It is found in Amazonian Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. The range of the scarlet-crowned barbet is the western-central Amazon Basin centered on the Amazon River-Marañón Rivers; the range spreads in the west from Andean foothills of southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, to the lower half of the northern-flowing Ucayali River in northern Peru. The range in the east at the Madeira River confluence with the Amazon River, is limited by and slightly overlaps the western range of the brown-chested barbet south of the Amazon River. The species is found in all of eastern Amazonian Ecuador.
Size
19 cm
Feeding Habits
Scarlet-crowned Barbet's primary diet consists of berries, fruits, and occasionally insects. It employs methods like gleaning on foliage and probing into dead leaves, occasionally joining mixed-species flocks for foraging.
Habitat
Scarlet-crowned Barbet typically inhabits lowland tropical rainforests with close proximity to water bodies such as swamps and floodplains. The species favors environments with a mix of várzea and transitional forests, including areas that experience seasonal flooding as well as secondary growth forests. Scarlet-crowned Barbet is also found within the habitat spectrum that includes the intermediary zones between wetter and drier forest climates.
Dite type
Frugivorous
Photo By Nikolaj Mølgaard Thomsen