Large Green Barbet at its nest-hole!
- 10 years ago
Frugivorous Large Green Barbet at its nest-hole...
The Brown-headed Barbet or Large Green Barbet is an Asian barbet. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. They have bristles which fringe their heavy bills from which they get their names.
The Brown-headed Barbet is an inhabitant breeder in India and Sri Lanka. It is an arboreal species which eats fruit and insects. It lays two to four eggs and nests in a tree hole. It largely feeds on mangos, ripe jackfruit, papaya, banana and similar cultivated fruit trees; hence it is called furgivorous. Its territory is urban and country gardens though it tends to avoid heavy forest. It nests in a suitable hole in a tree that it will often hollow out, like a woodpecker. A pair will take it in turns to hatch the eggs and they often speak with each other using their Kura, kura calls. It is a plump bird, with a short neck, large head and short tail and a usually large barbet at 27 cms.
The adult has a speckled brown head, neck and breast, with a yellow eye patch. The rest of the plumage is green and bill is thick and red. Both male and female look alike.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
The Brown-headed Barbet or Large Green Barbet is an Asian barbet. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. They have bristles which fringe their heavy bills from which they get their names.
The Brown-headed Barbet is an inhabitant breeder in India and Sri Lanka. It is an arboreal species which eats fruit and insects. It lays two to four eggs and nests in a tree hole. It largely feeds on mangos, ripe jackfruit, papaya, banana and similar cultivated fruit trees; hence it is called furgivorous. Its territory is urban and country gardens though it tends to avoid heavy forest. It nests in a suitable hole in a tree that it will often hollow out, like a woodpecker. A pair will take it in turns to hatch the eggs and they often speak with each other using their Kura, kura calls. It is a plump bird, with a short neck, large head and short tail and a usually large barbet at 27 cms.
The adult has a speckled brown head, neck and breast, with a yellow eye patch. The rest of the plumage is green and bill is thick and red. Both male and female look alike.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.