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Coppersmith Barbet
Megalaima haemacephala
19.0516, 72.8575
Field Notes
Description:
The Coppersmith Barbet, is a bird with crimson forehead and throat, yellow eye-ring and throat patch with streaked underside and green upperparts. It is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. Juveniles are duller and lack the red patches. The sexes are alike.
Habitat:
Seen at Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai.
Notes:
Like other barbets, they chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. Both sexes excavate the nest on the underside of a narrow horizontal branch.
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Coppersmith Barbet
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PublishedMarch 5, 2013
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