Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus Scientific name definitions

22–23 cm. Medium-sized green barbet with blue cheeks and blue throat divided by black bar. Both sexes of nominate race with green crown, very narrow red forehead patch and red nape patch, black eyestripe; chin paler, yellowish or greenish; red spot at each side of upper breast. Differs from P. asiaticus in paler blue face and throat broken by black submoustachial line. Immature duller , especially brighter colours muted, breast-side spots small or absent. Race <em>eurous</em> with larger red patch on hindcrown and nape, paler green-blue throat than nominate; elbeli with red nape patch as nominate, throat pale and more greenish-blue than in eurous.

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Fruits of various figs and of other trees, such as Macaranga and Trema; when breeding also insects, including cerambycid beetles and stick-insects. Insects hammered to break them into pieces, before being fed to young.

Several songs or variants, main one starts with single “tuk” that shifts into double “tuk-uk” or triple “tuk-a-tuk” notes, another with triple-noted sets each ending in trill, “tuk-tuk-trrrrr”; generally short, c. 1 phrase per second for 10–12 seconds, but countersinging results in longer, more rapidly uttered songs; song notes sometimes used as single-phrase call; also long, variable trills, up to 25 seconds or more, may mark interactions.