Birds of Venezuela

    PICIFORMES: Capitonidae (New World Barbets)  
Genus: Capito (2 species, 11 worldwide)


Gilded Barbet
Gilded Barbet (Capito auratus insperatus) Male
Puerto Maldonado, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Gilded Barbet
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   © All Rights Reserved.

Gilded Barbet
Gilded Barbet (Capito auratus insperatus) Female
Puerto Maldonado, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

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
Black-spotted Barbet (Capito niger) Male
Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-spotted Barbet
Black-spotted Barbet (Capito niger) Female
Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



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Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba