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...dae|Bulbuls]], [[:Category:Zosterops|White-eyes]] and [[:Category:Lybiidae|Barbets]] and sometimes with flocks of [[Waller's Starling]].<br />

Within its range, there are no other barbets of a similar size with the bold head pattern. The [[Yellow-fronted Tinkerbi

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16–19 cm (6¼-7½ in) The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.

...ot only important as a source of food but also as nest sites; White-headed Barbets excavate nests in soft-wooded trees (fig, jacaranda etc). They are social b

...owls, nightjars and hornills, kingfishers including [[Banded Kingfisher]], barbets and woodpeckers such as [[Heart-spotted Woodpecker]] and [[Great Slaty Wood ...[[Red-headed Trogon]], [[Common Kingfisher]], [[Blue-eared Kingfisher]], [[Black-backed Kingfisher]], [[Stork-billed Kingfisher]], [[Banded Kingfisher]], [[Ruddy K

...r]] and there is a good range of malkohas, hornbills, trogons, bee-eaters, barbets and woodpeckers plus numerous passerines.

The dark, stout bill is fringed with bristles or barbs, which give the barbets their name. The most common and widespread of the barbets found in [[India]], through south [[China]] and South-east [[Asia]] through

...tle Dove]], [[Ring-necked Parakeet]], kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers and barbets.