Barbets (Capitonidae)
Orange-fronted Barbet (Capito squamatus) - HBW 7, p. 213
French: Cabézon à nuque blanche
German: Weißnacken-Bartvogel
Spanish: Cabezón Escamoso
Other common names: Rufous-fronted Barbet
Taxonomy: Capito squamatus Salvin, 1876, Santa Rita, Ecuador.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with C. maculicoronatus; shares some plumage patterns with that species, but probably not very closely related, and is separated geographically from it by divergent C. quinticolor. Possibly distantly related to C. hypoleucus. Monotypic.
Distribution: Extreme SW Colombia (SW Nariño) and W Ecuador (S to El Oro).
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A male Locality Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2006 2 years ago 25 sec 3.3 -
A male in a cecropia tree and flying away Locality Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 September 2007 3 years ago 18 sec 2.6
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A male on a branch
Locality Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 1 October 2009 1 year ago 3 -
male perched
Locality Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 13 November 2009 2 years ago 3
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Calls. Locality Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 3 June 2009 2 years ago 4
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