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Red-headed Barbet (Eubucco bourcierii)

Red-headed Barbet
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Red-headed Barbet

The red-headed barbet (Eubucco bourcierii) is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae, the New World barbets. It is found in Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The red-headed barbet has six subspecies: E. b. salvini Shelley (1891) E. b. anomalus Griscom (1929) E. b. occidentalis Chapman (1914) E. b. bourcierii Lafresnaye (1845) E. b. aequatorialis Salvadori & Festa (1900) E. b. orientalis Chapman (1914).

Source: Red-headed barbet on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Red-headed Barbet. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:08) via xeno-canto.org/250830, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Song (0:06) via xeno-canto.org/250829, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela · xeno-canto lists 74 recordings for this species in total.

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