Birds of Venezuela
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PICIFORMES: Capitonidae (New World Barbets)
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Genus: Capito (2 species, 11 worldwide)
Gilded Barbet
(Capito auratus insperatus) Male
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Photograph by
Tom Friedel
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Gilded Barbet
(Capito auratus nitidior) Male
PNN Amacayacu, Colombia
Red-throated races are found from northeast Peru and southeast Colombia eastward into Brazil and Venezuela.
Photograph by
Tom Friedel
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Gilded Barbet
(Capito auratus insperatus) Female
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Photograph by
Tom Friedel
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Widespread and commonly heard, but often too high to see well (but will sometimes come to bottom of forest for berries).
A red-throated male hanging from a flower trying to pull it free with its weight.
Red-throated female.
Black-spotted Barbet
(Capito niger) Male
Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by
Tom Friedel
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Black-spotted Barbet
(Capito niger) Female
Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by
Tom Friedel
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Colombia
Panama
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Mexico
Experimental sites:
Peru
Venezuela
The World
Brazil
Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:
Guyana
Cuba