Birds of Ecuador

    PICIFORMES: Capitonidae (New World Barbets)  
Genus: Capito (4 species, 11 worldwide)


Gilded Barbet
Gilded Barbet (Capito auratus insperatus) Male
Puerto Maldonado, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Gilded Barbet
Gilded Barbet (Capito auratus insperatus) Female
Puerto Maldonado, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Widespread and commonly heard, but often too high to see well (but will sometimes come to bottom of forest for berries).
A red-throated male hanging from a flower trying to pull it free with its weight.
Red-throated female.

Scarlet-crowned Barbet
Scarlet-crowned Barbet (Capito aurovirens) Male
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Scarlet-crowned Barbet
Scarlet-crowned Barbet (Capito aurovirens) Female
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Five-colored Barbet
Five-colored Barbet (Capito quinticolor) Male Near Threatened
San Cipriano, Valle de Cauca, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Rare and local and usually in the canopy in Pacific flat lowlands before the Andes start.

Orange-fronted Barbet
Orange-fronted Barbet (Capito squamatus) Male
Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Steve Riall   © All Rights Reserved.

Orange-fronted Barbet
Orange-fronted Barbet (Capito squamatus) Female
Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Brayan Coral Jaramillo   © All Rights Reserved.



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