Yellow-crowned Barbet Psilopogon henricii Scientific name definitions

21·5–22·5 cm; 65–83 g. Green, sturdy-billed barbet with blue throat and much yellow on crown. Both sexes of nominate race with central hindcrown blue, golden-yellow from forehead extending broadly around crown over eyes; black lores and line through eye, pale green cheeks and line over eye; narrow red band on upper neck side, red mark on each side of breast at border of throat. Immature duller, bright colours paler, only forehead yellow, and base of bill pale, greyish. Race brachyrhynchus smaller-billed, less bright, with blue areas more violet-blue, green of ear-coverts yellower, yellow top of head less golden.

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Eats fruits , mainly figs (Ficus); other foods not known. An individual monitored for four days ranged over 7·5 ha and spent 75% of time near or at fruiting Ficus binnendykii tree; movements primarily from that tree to canopy of a 40-m tree in which it roosted. No other information on feeding habits.

Song  usually a long series of phrases, each with 2–7 “tuk” notes preceded by, or sometimes followed by, brief trill, “ttrrrt”; phrases of 2–3 seconds, may sometimes lack trill note.