- Eubucco tucinkae
Identification
17 cm. A distinctive barbet with a red head.
- Red head with black chin and golden-yellow nuchal band
- Green upperparts with some red on mantle
- Yellow bill
- Red throat with some yellow, red breaking into orange and yellow on lower breast
- Grey patches on sides, olive-streaked flanks
Females with pale yellow throat, golden-orange band on breast and less orange below. Immature undescribed.
Distribution
Eastern Peru, western Amazonian Brazil and south to western Bolivia.
A not well known restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Has been considered conspecific with Red-headed Barbet.
Habitat
Found in forest close to rivers and oxbow lakes. Also around abandonend farm gardens near rivers and on river islands.
Occurs from c. 150 m up to 850 m, locally higher.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on figs, takes also flowers, nectar and insects.
Joins mixed-species foraging flocks.
Breeding
Breeding season July and later in Peru. Nests in a tree cavity. No other information.
Movements
Presumably a resident and sedentary species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Scarlet-hooded Barbet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scarlet-hooded_Barbet