Adult © John Clough
Immature © John Clough
Juvenile © Sam Hambly
Adult © John Clough
+ 4
Adult © Amar-Singh HSS
Adult © Neoh Hor Kee
Adult © Jan-Peter Kelder

Black-eared Barbet Psilopogon duvaucelii

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Identification

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A small barbet of dense, broad-leaved forests in lowland and foothill regions. Adult is bright green with a blue face patterned with a complex mosaic of black, red, orange, and yellow. Juvenile is green with a powder-blue face and no dark markings. Like most other barbets, tends to stick to dense canopy and is seldom seen, but its far-carrying song is often heard: a long steady series of single or doubled chirping notes that somewhat resemble a frog’s. Also gives a series of rising peeps: “weet, weet, weet.” Overlaps with Blue-eared Barbet (with which it is treated as one species by some taxonomies) in far southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.

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