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Male (top) - Female (bottom)
Photo by Stanley Jones
Photo taken between Moyobamba and Tarapoto, Amazonas Department, Peru,November 2013

Capito auratus

Identification

Male: orange-red throat and yellow unmarked chest with browny streaks on the flanks of the belly.

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

Taxonomy



A female, subspecies auratus
Photo by Aracari
Rio Caures, Amazonas, Brazil, February 2008

Formerly considered conspecific with Black-spotted Barbet. Several subspecies have been assigned to Black-spotted Barbet by Clements but are all now moved to this species.

Subspecies

There are 8 subspecies^[1]:

• C. a. punctatus:

• South-central Colombia along lower eastern Andes to central Peru (Junín)

• C. a. auratus:

• North-eastern Peru (mouth of Río Napo s along Amazon and Río Ucayali)

• C. a. insperatus:

• South-eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and western Brazil (Calama)

• C. a. aurantiicinctus:

• Venezuela (upper Orinoco region, western Bolivar and Amazonas)

• C. a. orosae:

• Eastern Peru (Río Orosa to Rio Javari, south to extreme western Brazil in Acre)

• C. a. amazonicus:

• Western Brazil south of Rio Solimões from upper Rio Jurúa east to Rio Purús

• C. a. nitidior:

• Extreme eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela to Peru/Brazil border

• C. a. hypochondriacus:

• Northern Brazil (Roraima along Rio Branco to Rio Negro and Solimões)

References

1. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
2. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
3. Avibase
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Gilded Barbet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gilded_Barbet

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