Scarlet-crowned barbet

The scarlet-crowned barbet (Capito aurovirens) is a species of bird in the family Capitonidae.

Scarlet-crowned barbet

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Capitonidae
Genus: Capito
Species:
C. aurovirens
Binomial name
Capito aurovirens
(Cuvier, 1829)

It is found in Amazonian Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

Napo River Island / Near Sacha Lodge - Ecuador

The range of the scarlet-crowned barbet is the western-central Amazon Basin centered on the Amazon River-Marañón Rivers; the range spreads in the west from Andean foothills of southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, to the lower half of the northern-flowing Ucayali River in northern Peru. The range in the east at the Madeira River confluence with the Amazon River, is limited by and slightly overlaps the western range of the brown-chested barbet south of the Amazon River. The species is found in all of eastern Amazonian Ecuador.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Capito aurovirens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)



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