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BLACK BROWED BARBET

Family : Megalaimidae

Species : Megalaima oorti

Common Name : Black-browed Barbet

Malay Name : Takor Bukit

The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet
family, Megalaimidae.

It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow
and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name
for the bird, "five-colored bird" refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage
and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred
to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.

It has a scattered distribution in south-eastern Asia. The subspecies M. o. oorti occurs in Sumatra and the
Malay Peninsula. M. o. annamensis is found in eastern Cambodia, southern Laos and south-central Vietnam;
it is sometimes treated as a separate species, the Indochinese Barbet. Three further subspecies of Black-browed
Barbet are now commonly treated as two separate species: the Chinese Barbet (M. faber) of southern China
(M. f. sini in Guangxi and M. f. faber in Hainan) and the Taiwan Barbet (M. nuchalis) of Taiwan.

It inhabits tropical and subtropical forests. It forages in the upper and middle levels of the canopy. It
excavates a nest hole in a tree but little else is known about its breeding habits.

Source : Wikipedia

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