Red-vented barbet

Red-vented barbet
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Megalaimidae
Genus:	Psilopogon
Species:	P. lagrandieri
Binomial name
Psilopogon lagrandieri (Verreaux, 1868)
Synonyms
Megalaima lagrandieri

The red-vented barbet (Psilopogon lagrandieri) is an Asian barbet native to Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, where it inhabits subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. ^[1]

Description

Its plumage is green to bronze-coloured. Its head is brown with greyish patches on the throat and sides and a blue line above the eyes. It has a red patch below the tail. It is 29–34 cm (11–13 in) long. ^[2]

Diet

In the Lac Boc Forest of Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam, it consumes the fruit of Ficus sp., Litsea cubeba , Campylospermum serratum , Cinnamomum sp. and Knema sp., flowers of Wrightia sp., numerous invertebrates and some vertebrates. ^[3]

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Psilopogon lagrandieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22681594A130044154. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22681594A130044154.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Short, L. L.; Horne, J. F. M. (2014). "Red-vented Barbet (Psilopogon lagrandieri)". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D. A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.
3. Trounov, Vitaly L.; Vasilieva, Anna B. (2014). "First record of the nesting biology of the red-vented barbet, Megalaima lagrandieri (Aves: Piciformes: Megalaimidae), an Indochinese endemic" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 62 (671–678). Retrieved 12 January 2021.