Barbets (Capitonidae)
Yellow-fronted Barbet (Megalaima flavifrons) - HBW 7, p. 205
French: Barbu à front d’or
German: Goldstirn-Bartvogel
Spanish: Barbudo Frentigualdo
Other common names: Sri Lanka/Ceylon Yellow-fronted Barbet, Yellow-faced Barbet
Taxonomy: Bucco flavifrons Cuvier, 1816, Sri Lanka. No close relatives.
Monotypic.
Distribution: Sri Lanka.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched in a bush, flying away in the end. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 2 years ago 10 sec 3
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Yellow-fronted Barbet pair calling at dawn.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Steve Garvie 26 July 2009 2 years ago 4.4 -
Foraging.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 3 January 2012 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4 -
An adult feeding in the subcanopy.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Steve Garvie 4 August 2009 2 years ago 3 -
In the folliage
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Guy Poisson 7 January 2011 1 year ago 2.2
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