Black-browed Barbet

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When to see the Black-browed Barbet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-browed Barbet

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Taiwan.

About the Black-browed Barbet

The black-browed barbet is an Asian barbet native to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, where it inhabits foremost forests between 600 and 2,000 m altitude. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wide distribution and stable population.

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Easily confused with

Fire-tufted BarbetPsilopogon pyrolophusThe fire-tufted barbet is green with a brownish-maroon nape, grey lores, and a white band on the forehead. Moustached BarbetPsilopogon incognitusThe moustached barbet is an Asian barbet. Red-crowned BarbetPsilopogon rafflesiiThe red-crowned barbet is a medium-large tropical bird, 24.5–27 cm (9.6–10.6 in) long and 99–150 g (3.5–5.3 oz) in weight.

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