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Psilopogon nuchalis (Gould, [1863])
Etymology：
鴷形目 Order Piciformes
鬚鴷科 Family Megalaimidae
擬啄木屬 Genus Psilopogon
Caught this Barbet greedily eyeing the guava growing in the backyard. Diet consists mostly of fruits that it tears open with its powerful beak. Has a white cheek stripe with grass-green plumage above and white breast streaked brown. Also known in India as the Small Green Barbet. While foraging they can get pretty aggressive and attempt to chase off other frugivores. They play an important role in forests as seed dispersal agents.
The feathers on a Barbet were shimmering nicely in afternoon sunshine.
The Coppersmith Barbet, Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala) photographed in Pune-India.
Blue-throated Barbet (Megalaima asiatica) captured at Neelan Bhoto, Haripur, KPK, Pakistan with Canon EOS 7D Mark II
OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO + 1.4X Test.
The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.
It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green.
It has a scattered distribution in south-eastern Asia. The subspecies M. o. oorti occurs in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. M. o. annamensis is found in eastern Cambodia, southern Laos and south-central Vietnam; it is sometimes treated as a separate species, the Indochinese Barbet. Three further subspecies of Black-browed Barbet are now commonly treated as two separate species: the Chinese Barbet (M. faber) of southern China (M. f. sini in Guangxi and M. f. faber in Hainan) and the Taiwan Barbet (M. nuchalis) of Taiwan.
Taiwan Barbet
It inhabits tropical and subtropical forests. It forages in the upper and middle levels of the canopy. It excavates a nest hole in a tree .
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As spring is the season for mating, lots of birds are singing for the other. Among these singing birds, Muller's Barbet's voice is one of the most special ones. Following the special voice, I found the male calling on the top of cherry tree while the female was enjoying the cherry fruits on the other. Hope to see their kids very soon.
最近五色鳥將我們社區當作約會聖地，天氣好時，會聽到好多隻雄鳥猛唱情歌，只要順著叫聲，就會發現雄鳥在枝頭上唱歌，可惜裝備弱，拍不到枝頭上的雄鳥，今天很幸運，在較矮的櫻桃樹上，拍到正在狂嗑櫻桃果的雌鳥~超級可愛的! 好期待他們能在我們社區築巢~
~世界山莊, 台北, 台灣
Vision City, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 400, F5, 1/125 sec, 200mm
- Canon 550D with EF 70-200mm f/4 L lens
দাগি বসন্ত বাউরি | Lineated Barbet | Megalaima lineata
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The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.
It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name for the bird, "five-colored bird" (五色鳥) refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.
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The large green barbet or brown-headed barbet (Megalaima zeylanica) is an Asian barbet. Here is a close-up of the wing feathers of a juvenile bird. He had fallen down on the ground and was lying on his back, possibly after an attack by a raptor (there were black kites and shikras all around).
I had rescued this terribly frightened and shivering bird, reassured him and kept him warm the whole night. Not to mention his tight grip that had poked into the skin of my palm and fingers when he was perched on my hand. This little fellow was comfortably sleeping in my palms and then in the make-shift nest that I made using the tissue box. In the room, checked his feathers and legs, in fact, the whole body and realized that there was no injuries or damages caused owing to the fall. However, he was in a state of shock.
After some research, I realized that this is an arboreal (tree-dwelling) bird, which almost never ventures to land. So, he is not comfortable to walk on land or other flat surfaces. However, he was happy to hop around, especially between my two hands by gripping tightly on my fingers and the tissue paper roll or towel folds, which offered his talons good griping surfaces.
In its company, I could realize the strength of its grip, which keeps these birds steady and fast on the branches and do not allow them to fall even when they are asleep. This little one slept the whole night without any disturbance, nor disturbing me. After all, these are exclusively diurnal (day-timers) birds, which use night to just sleep in a safe spot up in some tree.
Once the sun was up next day, I could listen There were many shrill barbet chirps all around. This fellow ignored them, as he was warm in his new nest (tissue box with tissues) and half-opened his eyes. I gently preened its feathers and made it feel cozy. Cleaned up after him to ensure that his guano does not invite unnecessary pests. This photo was shot after the preening session.
I was not sure of his food due to lack of knowledge of his age. It is interesting that barbet chicks are insectivorous and thus survive on insect meals; while adults are frugivorous and so eat ficus fruits and berries. Though he did not look like a chick (lack of the distinct coloration in mouth junction, where beaks join), thought of giving him both insects and fruits. Collected few fruit berries and farm-fresh insects (killed right then) and placed it in his box in the morning, should he feel hungry for breakfast after the ordeal of the past evening. However, he was more keen to sleep through the cool morning, rather than going for his meal.
Once he was trying to hop and being chirpy around noon, returned him to Nature and placed him on a branch of a tree. Fortunately, the little one happily hopped around and ventured off to live another day. The good thing is that throughout the companionship, my feathered friend never tried to peck me or claw me. Miss you and wish you are safe and sound with the company of other birds.
Coppersmith Barbet Juvenile(Megalaima haemacephala)
The coppersmith barbet, crimson-breasted barbet or coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala), is a bird with crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. It is a resident found in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Like other barbets, they chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites.
Description
This species of barbet is found to overlap in range with several larger barbets in most of South Asia. In the Western Ghats, it partly overlaps with the Malabar barbet which is of a very similar size but having a more rapid call. The red forehead, yellow eye-ring and throat patch with streaked underside and green upperparts, it is fairly distinctive. Juveniles are duller and lack the red patches. The sexes are alike. The Sri Lankan form has more black on the face, more red on the breast and darker streaks on the underside.
During the nesting season, the wear and tear on the feathers can cause the plumage of the upper back to appear bluish.
Within the Old World Megalaima barbets, they are found to be basal in phylogenetic analyses. Most of the remaining Asian species are more recent in their divergence and speciation.
About nine subspecies are well recognized.
- nominate haemacephala (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) is found in the Islands of the Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines
- indica (Latham, 1790) is found in the Indian subcontinent form northeastern Pakistan and extends into Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Several former supspecies from India are synonymized into indica.
The remaining are island populations in Southeast Asia
- delica (Parrot, 1907) Sumatra
- rosea (Dumont, 1816) Java
- homochroa Dziadosz & Parkes, 1984 from Tablas
- celestinoi Gilliard, 1949 from Catanduanes, Biliran, Samar, Leyte
- intermedia (Shelley, 1891) from Panay, Guimaras, Negros
- cebuensis Dziadosz & Parkes, 1984 from Cebu
- mindanensis Rand, 1948 from Mindanao
Habitat and distribution
Throughout their wide range they are found in gardens, groves and sparse woodland. Habitats with trees having dead wood suitable for excavation is said to be important. Birds nest and roost in cavities.
In the Palni Hills of southern India it is said to occur below 4000 feet.[6] In the Himalayas it is found mainly in the valleys of the outer Himalayas up to 3000 feet. They are rare in the dry desert zones and the very wet forests.
Behaviour and ecology
Keeps solitary, pairs, or small groups; larger parties occasionally on abundantly fruiting Ficus trees. Fond of sunning themselves in the morning on bare top branches of tall trees, often flitting about to sit next to each other. The flight is straight, with rapid flaps.
They compete with other cavity nesting birds and frugivores. Megalaima asiatica have been noted to evict them from their nest holes, while red-vented bulbuls have been seen to indulge in kleptoparasitism, robbing the male of berries brought to the female at the nest.
The nest holes are also used for roosting and some birds roost alone in cavities and these often roost during part of the day. Immatures will roost with the parents but often return to roost early so as not to be prevented by the parents from entering the roost cavity.
Vocalization
The call is a loud rather metallic tuk…tuk…tuk (or tunk), reminiscent of a copper sheet being beaten, giving the bird its name. Repeated monotonously for long periods, starting with a subdued tuk and building up to an even volume and tempo, the latter varying from 108 to 121 per minute and can continue with as many as 204 notes. They are silent and do not call in winter.
The beak remains shut during each call - a patch of bare skin on both sides of the throat inflates and collapses with each tuk like a rubber bulb and the head is bobbed.
Diet
Prefers Banyan, Peepul, and other wild figs, various drupes and berries, and the occasional insect, caught in aerial sallies. Petals of flowers may also be included in their diet. They eat nearly 1.5 to nearly 3 times their body weight in berries each day.
Breeding
Courtship involves singing, puffing of the throat, bobbing of the head, flicking of the tail, ritual feeding and allopreening.
They breed through much of the year with local variation. The breeding season is mainly February to April in India and December to September in Sri Lanka. Both sexes excavate the nest on the underside of a narrow horizontal branch. They may also roost inside the nest holes. Three or four eggs are laid and like in many hole nesting birds the incubation period is not well known but has been estimated to be about 2 weeks. Both sexes incubate. Often two broods are raised in quick succession.
Mortality factors
Adult birds are sometimes taken by predatory species. In urban areas, there are records of collisions with structures including white walls. Pesticide poisoning has also been noted.
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Lineated Barbet, Megalaima lineata hodgsoni, 28 cm / 11 in. Resident of the Himalayan foothills in open deciduous forest, well-wooded areas and roadside fruiting trees. Handheld.
Jia Bhoroli River, Nameri National Park, Assam, India.
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五色鳥是今次最想拍到的雀鳥, 實際上我是聽到見不到, 在大背光下認不出牠, 但打了才算, 回來加光後, 好像執到寶那麼高興, 人生就是這樣才算活過~
五色鳥（學名：Megalaima nuchalis），又名：台灣擬啄木，[1]，因其羽毛有五種顏色而得名。
身長約20～23公分，喙基上黑色嘴鬚發達，身體多為翠綠色，頭部大部份為藍色，額頭和喉部有黃色分布，眼先和前頸有小部份紅色，眼部至耳羽上方則為黑色，粗厚嘴部為黑色，腳鉛灰色。叫聲單調而響亮，類似敲木魚「叩叩叩……」[2]，又因其羽色多彩繽紛，而被稱作「花和尚」。在繁殖時會啄樹洞為巢。
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Malaysia - Fraser´s Hill - The red-throated barbet (Megalaima mystacophanos) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss. (Wikipedia)
Seen daily on the various fruiting trees in the backyard. Also called the Small Green Barbet. Like many other barbets of Asia, these are green, sit still and perch upright making them difficult to spot. These birds are mostly frugivorous, but will take winged termites and other insects opportunistically. When foraging they are quite aggressive and will attempt to chase other barbets, Koels and other frugivores.
Black winged kite with kill
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A Coppersmith Barbet ( Megalaima haemacephala ) perched opposite it's nesting hole in the same tree.
This one is for my friend Wilma1962* and all friends in the Netherlands (and other 'freezing' parts of the world ) who are going through a very severe winter. A lot of Warmth & Sunshine from India : )