Black-eared Barbet

When to see the Black-eared Barbet

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-eared Barbet

The map shades 12 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 Nepal.

About the Black-eared Barbet

The black-eared barbet is a barbet in the family Megalaimidae native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. It inhabits shrubland and forest up to an altitude of 1,200 m (3,900 ft). Because of its large range it is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List.

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Easily confused with

Malabar BarbetPsilopogon malabaricusThis species can be told apart from the coppersmith barbet by the crimson face and throat. Golden-throated BarbetPsilopogon frankliniiThe golden-throated barbet is vivid green above with paler yellowish-green plumage below, deep blue wings and verditer underneath the tail. Crimson-fronted BarbetPsilopogon rubricapillusThe crimson-fronted barbet has a mainly green plumage and wings, a blue band down the side of the head and neck, and a black crescent behind the eye.