Profile
In flight
Tropical Birds
Blue-throated Barbet
Psilopogon asiaticus
- epic
- 65 km/h
- Least Concern
A stout green fruit-eater whose face looks painted by a child given only the loudest colors. Its monotonous took-a-rook hammers all through the foothill heat.
- Population
- common across the eastern Himalaya and northern Southeast Asia
- Habitat
- broadleaf forest, orchards, foothill woodland up to 2000 m
- Diet
- figs, ripe fruit, berries, occasionally insects
- Size
- 0.23 m
- Wingspan
- 0.32 m
