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Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus)

Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus)
Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus)

About Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Puffbirds
  • Family: Asian Barbets

The Malabar barbet is an Asian barbet native to the Western Ghats in India. It was formerly treated as a race of the crimson-fronted barbet. It overlaps in some places with the range of the coppersmith barbet and has a similar but more rapid call.

Source: Wikipedia

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