ABOUT THIS SPECIES
PRONG-BILLED BARBET – (Species Account Weblog #112)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Piciformes – Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans and Honeyguides
- FAMILY: Semnornithidae – Toucan-Barbets,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Semnornis frantzii
The Prong-billed Barbet is restricted to the moss and epiphyte-laden cloud-forest alongside the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and western Panama. In contrast to a lot of the different New World barbets, it has a slightly uniform boring tawny brown plumage all through, with a heavy grey invoice, and purple eye. Males have a tuft of elongated, black, stiff feathers on the nape. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed two Prong-billed Barbets on the Galeria de Colibrí y Soda Cinchona.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery photographs (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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