Scarlet Bearded Bird

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Scarlet Bearded Bird
Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Woodpecker birds (Piciformes)
Family : American bearded birds (Capitonidae)
Genre : Dwarf Mustaches ( Eubucco )
Type : Scarlet Bearded Bird
Scientific name
Eubucco tucinkae
( Seilern , 1913)

The scarlet head Barbet ( Eubucco tucinkae ) is a bird art from the family of American barbets . The species occurs in South America. It is a very colorful species in which both sexes have a red skull. No subspecies are distinguished. The IUCN classifies the scarlet-headed bearded bird as not endangered ( least concern ).

Appearance

The males of the scarlet-headed bearded bird reach a wing length of 7.4 to 8.1 centimeters. The tail length is between 5.7 and 6.8 centimeters. The beak is between 1.8 and 2.3 inches long. The females have similar body measurements.

The males are black around the base of the beak, and the eyes are framed in black. The rest of the head, the sides of the neck, and the front chest are red. The neck is golden yellow, the front back is olive colored, with the individual feathers having golden and reddish tips. The rest of the back is yellowish olive, the rump and the upper tail-coverts are light green with yellow feathers. The control feathers, which are long in relation to body size, are olive-brown with brown spring shafts. On the underside, the feathers are slightly paler with a yellowish sheen and matt yellowish-white feather shafts. The red of the front breast changes to a golden yellow in the middle of the breast, there is a gray spot on each side of the breast. The middle of the abdomen is yellow-white, the under tail-covers are olive-green and striped with white. The beak is green to yellow, the eyes are red to dark red.

The sexual dimorphism is not as pronounced as, for example, in the Andean bearded bird , which belongs to the same genus. The females differ from the males by their yellow throat and orange-yellow front breast. The back is more yellowish-green up to the upper tail covers than in the male.

There is a possibility of confusion with the tangaren in particular . The golden-breasted bearded bird , whose range overlaps that of the scarlet-headed bearded bird, differs from the latter in that it has a rather orange head and yellow throat. The gray spot on the sides of the body is also a characteristic feature of the scarlet-headed bearded bird, which is not found in any other bearded bird in the range.

Distribution area and habitat

The range of the scarlet-headed bearded bird is about 178,000 square kilometers. It extends from the east of the Andes in southern Peru to the north of La Paz and Acre . The scarlet bearded bird occurs at altitudes between 150 and 850 meters and prefers to colonize forests along rivers. It also uses secondary forest , which is growing back on abandoned cultivated areas of the indigenous population of this region.

Way of life

The scarlet-headed bearded bird is an omnivore whose diet consists of around 40% insects and 60% fruits and flowers. He looks for insects between leaves and in lianas. Occasionally he joins flocks of other bird species. He was in company with throttle-wrens ( Campylorhynchus turdinus ) Elstertangaren ( Cissopis leveriana ) and Maskentangaren ( Ramphocelus nigrogularis observed). The reproductive biology of the scarlet bearded bird is largely unexplored.

supporting documents

literature

  • Lester L. Short and Jennifer FM Horne: Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides - Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and Indicatoridae. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-854666-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BirdLife factsheet on the Scarlet Bearded Bird , accessed on February 6, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c Short et al., P. 314
  3. ↑ Short et al., P. 313
  4. ↑ Short et al., P. 315

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