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Here are some photos taken of the Taiwan Barbet, also known as the Five Coloured Bird in Daan Park, Taipei, Taiwan. This bird is endemic to the island of Taiwan. When I visited the park there were several trees cordoned off to keep photographers from getting too close. The birds nest in holes in the trees and one of the pair, in this case the male flies off and brings back food. I took these photos a couple days prior to Typhoon Soudelor hitting the city. The female comes up from the nest for air and calls out to the male. The day after the typhoon I returned and sadly the tree, and of course the nest had been destroyed in the storm. I saw the male up high in a nearby tree calling out over and over, so he may have lost his mate.
A highly-cropped hand-held telephoto of this amazingly colorful bird. He was near the Biligirirangaswamy Temple in the Biligirirangaswamy Hills of Karnataka.
育雛 Brooding
五色鳥
Megalaima nuchalis
Taiwan Barbet
花和尚
台灣擬啄木
Taiwan, Rep. of China
© copyright by Ching-Wei Chang 張慶維 維哥
Coppersmith Barbet or Crimson-breasted barbet (Megalaima haemacephala)
@ Hingolgadh, Gujarat, India
02/01/2016
Canon EOS 7D + 55-250mm
五色鳥
該是貝葉千卷裡的哪行經句？
該是幾個蒲團坐破？
萬萬燈下密咒聲
那花和尚
磬聲木魚
叩叩
問著
許是劫前那聲想你
讓繁花五色
綻開
簇簇
纍纍結實
而你紅喙情深
啣起愛的菓子輕輕
穿梭
林間梵唱清響
（2009年8月9日）
＊花和尚，五色鳥的別名。此鳥頭與喉部，長有黃、紅、藍、黑色羽毛，身體則為翠綠色，因此稱為五色鳥。而叫聲像是和尚敲打木魚的聲音，所以又稱花和尚。另外，在台灣，五色鳥也被稱為國母鳥。
＃本詩原貼於【詩國曲沝】
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五色鳥(Megalaima oorti), Photo was taken just before this baby bird left its nest, in a campus in Hsinchu city, Taiwan.
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 South Asia 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 insects. (source wikipedia)
This guy came and alighted on the bough, while I was trying out a lens. It was as if he/she wanted to be photographed. Now I know the ID.
Normally found above 600m so this was an unusual found. Maybe the rainy season forces some birds to look for food outside of their normal range?
Valley School, Bangalore
The Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala), also referred to sometimes simply as coppersmith, is a barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds with a world-wide tropical distribution. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.
The Coppersmith Barbet is a resident breeder in India, Sri Lanka, southeast Asia and Indonesia. It is an arboreal species of open wooded country which eats fruit and insects. It nests in a tree hole, laying 2-4 eggs.
This is a relatively small barbet at 17 cm. It is a plump bird, with a short neck, large head and short tail.
The adult is mainly green above, and whitish, heavily streaked with green below. It has red forehead and breast patches and yellow patches above and below the eye and on the throat. These are separated by black. Sexes are similar, but juveniles lack the red patches.