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Malabar Barbet
(Megalaima malabarica)
10.8765, 76.8823
Field Notes
Description:
Clicked this barbet in the forests of western ghats bordering kerala and tamil nadu in southern India . The Malabar Barbet (megalaima malabarica) is a small barbet found in the Western Ghats of India.
It was formerly treated as a race of the Crimson-fronted Barbet. It overlaps in some places with the range of the Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala
Notes:
The species feeds mainly on fruits but sometimes takes grubs, termites (flycatching at emerging swarms of alates), ants and small caterpillars. In Kerala, the fruiting trees were limited mainly to Ficus species, especially Ficus retusa, Ficus gibbosa and Ficus tsiela. When feeding on small fruits, they tend to perch and peck rather than to swallow the fruit whole. In the non-breeding season, they join mixed-species foraging flocks
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