Black-spotted Barbet (Capito niger)
About the Black-spotted Barbet
The black-spotted barbet (Capito niger) is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae, the New World barbets. It is found in Brazil, the Guianas, and Venezuela. The black-spotted barbet was formally described in 1776 by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller under the binomial name Bucco niger. Müller based his account on the "Tamatia à tête et gorge rouge" from Cayenne that had been described in 1780 by the French naturalist, the Comte de Buffon. The specific epithet niger is Latin meaning "black". The black-spotted barbet is now placed with ten other species in the genus Capito that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-ND · 4 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Brazil in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Orange-fronted BarbetCapito squamatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.