A bird that can express itself with no less than several very distinctive calls!
MEET THE BROWN HEAD BARBET
The brown-headed barbet (Pѕilopogon zeylanicus) is 27 cm long with a large head and short neck and tail with prominent pale stripes on its brown head and chest. They have a brown head with a large yellow eye patch, while the rest of their plumage is green. The beak is thick and red.
This bird lives and is native to the Indian subcontinent from the Terai in southern Nepal in the north to Sri Lanka in the south.
Brown-headed barbets like to live in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, as well as suburban gardens.
These birds eat fruits such as mangoes, ripe jackfruit, papaya, banana, figs and similar cultivated fruit trees, as well as insects.
Brown-headed barbets nest in a suitable hole in a tree which they often dig. Both sexes incubate two to four eggs laid inside them and often communicate with each other by their Kura, kura calls.
This bird is considered to be of least concern on the IUCN Red List.
