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Long-tailed Sibia, Heterophasia picaoides

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

Habitat
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.

Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
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Description
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.

It has a scattered distribution in south-eastern Asia. It occurs in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. The Indochinese barbet was formerly considered a subspecies.

Three further subspecies of Black-browed Barbet are now commonly treated as two separate species:

• the Chinese barbet (P. faber) of southern China

• the Taiwan barbet (P. nuchalis) of Taiwan.


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Conservation status
Long-tailed Sibia, Heterophasia picaoides
Least concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sighted: 2 July 2017
Location: Genting Highlands


Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet - 2 July 2017 - Genting Highlands

Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet - 2 July 2017 - Genting Highlands

Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet - 2 July 2017 - Genting Highlands

Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet, Psilopogon oorti
Black-browed Barbet or Müller's barbet - 2 July 2017 - Genting Highlands



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