Great Barbet

What the Great Barbet sounds like

Recorded by Sandeep Chakraborty · Call, song · Geyzing, South Sikkim, Sikkim, India · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Great Barbet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Great Barbet

The map shades 11 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Great Barbet

The great barbet is an Asian barbet native to the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft) altitude. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004 because of its wide distribution.

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Easily confused with

Lineated BarbetPsilopogon lineatusThe lineated barbet is an Asian barbet native to the Terai, the Brahmaputra basin to Southeast Asia. Blue-throated BarbetPsilopogon asiaticusThe blue-throated barbet is a non-migratory, arboreal medium-sized barbet, about the size of a myna 19–22 cm (7.5–8.7 in). Malabar BarbetPsilopogon malabaricusThis species can be told apart from the coppersmith barbet by the crimson face and throat.

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