Male © Julio Calderón Birding Tour Guide 🦉 eBird S51485514 Macaulay Library ML 134053571
Female © Juan Pablo Arboleda
Male © Julio Calderón Birding Tour Guide 🦉
Female © Juan Pablo Arboleda
Male © Jan Hansen

Five-colored Barbet Capito quinticolor

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Identification

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Colorful barbet of lowland rainforest west of the Andes; scarce and declining in northwestern Ecuador, but more common in parts of southwestern Colombia. Male is black and yellow with red crown, white throat, and streaked flanks. Female is heavily spotted with black below, and has black and yellow streaking on head. Usually stays high in trees and often joins mixed-species flocks. Male sings a series of ten or more soft “boo” notes; he hunches over and looks like he’s retching while singing.

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