About the Malabar Barbet
The Malabar barbet is an Asian barbet native to the Western Ghats in India. It was formerly treated as a race of the crimson-fronted barbet. It overlaps in some places with the range of the coppersmith barbet and has a similar but more rapid call.
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ID tip
This species can be told apart from the coppersmith barbet by the crimson face and throat. The call notes are more rapidly delivered than in the other species.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in February · a winter visitor species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Black-eared BarbetPsilopogon duvauceliiThe black-eared barbet is a barbet in the family Megalaimidae native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.
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.
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