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[[Image:Scarlet-Crowned_Barbet.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Roy+Halpin|Roy Halpin}}<br />[[Ecuador|Ecuadorian]] Amazon Basin, October 2004]]
 
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[[Image:Scarlet-Crowned_Barbet.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by '''Roy Halpin''' in Ecuadorian Amazon Basin]]
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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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19 cm (7½ in)
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*Greenish-olive overall plumage
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*Orange-yellow throat down to breast
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*Whitish chin<br />
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'''Male'''
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*Red crown to nape
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*Some black in olive [[Topography#Heads|lores]]
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*Olive-green ear-[[Topography#General Anatomy|coverts]]
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[[Image:Scarlet-crowned Barbet female Napo.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}}<br />Yasuni Kichwa Ecolodge, Rio Napo, Orellina Province, [[Ecuador]], January 2016]]
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
[[Brazil]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Peru]].
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[[South America]]: found in South-east [[Colombia]] to eastern [[Peru]] and western Amazonian [[Brazil]] (east to Río Negro)
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==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
Moist lowland forests and swamps.
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Near water in varzea forest.  
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
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====Diet====
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They glean in foliage, on twigs and branches for fruit, berries and insects.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug16}}#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2016)
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{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Capito+aurovirens}}
 
{{GSearch|Capito+aurovirens}}

Revision as of 23:58, 24 September 2016

Photo by Roy Halpin
Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, October 2004
Capito aurovirens

Identification

19 cm (7½ in)

  • Greenish-olive overall plumage
  • Orange-yellow throat down to breast
  • Whitish chin

Male

  • Red crown to nape
  • Some black in olive lores
  • Olive-green ear-coverts
Female
Photo by Stanley Jones
Yasuni Kichwa Ecolodge, Rio Napo, Orellina Province, Ecuador, January 2016

Distribution

South America: found in South-east Colombia to eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil (east to Río Negro)

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Near water in varzea forest.

Behaviour

Diet

They glean in foliage, on twigs and branches for fruit, berries and insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2016)

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External Links

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