Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus)
About the Malabar Barbet
The Malabar barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus) is an Asian barbet native to the Western Ghats in India. It was formerly treated as a race of the crimson-fronted barbet (Psilopogon rubricapillus). It overlaps in some places with the range of the coppersmith barbet (Psilopogon haemacephala) and has a similar but more rapid call. This species can be told apart from the coppersmith barbet by the crimson face and throat. The call notes are more rapidly delivered than in the other species. This species is found in the Western Ghats from around Goa south to southern Kerala in moist evergreen forest mainly below 1200 m elevation. They are also found in coffee estates. They often visit fruiting Ficus species, joining flocks of green pigeon and mynas.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 29 recordings for this species: 15 CC BY-NC-ND · 14 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in India in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blue-throated BarbetPsilopogon asiaticusrecording
- Brown-headed BarbetPsilopogon zeylanicusrecording
- Coppersmith BarbetPsilopogon haemacephalusrecording
- Great BarbetPsilopogon virensrecording
- Lineated BarbetPsilopogon lineatusrecording
- White-cheeked BarbetPsilopogon viridisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.