Red-vented barbet explained

The red-vented barbet (Psilopogon lagrandieri) is an Asian barbet native to Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, where it inhabits subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Description

Its plumage is green to bronze-coloured. Its head is brown with greyish patches on the throat and sides and a blue line above the eyes. It has a red patch below the tail. It is NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches) long.^[1]

Diet

In the Lac Boc Forest of Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam, it consumes the fruit of Ficus sp., Litsea cubeba, Campylospermum serratum, Cinnamomum sp. and Knema sp., flowers of Wrightia sp., numerous invertebrates and some vertebrates.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Short, L. L. . Horne, J. F. M. . 2014 . Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World . 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers . del Hoyo, J. . Elliott, A. . Sargatal, J. . Christie, D. A. . de Juana, E. . Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International . Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK . Red-vented Barbet (Psilopogon lagrandieri) . https://www.hbw.com/species/red-vented-barbet-psilopogon-lagrandieri.
2. Trounov . Vitaly L. . Vasilieva . Anna B. . First record of the nesting biology of the red-vented barbet, Megalaima lagrandieri (Aves: Piciformes: Megalaimidae), an Indochinese endemic . Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 2014 . 62 . 671–678 . 12 January 2021.