Barbetto dalla corona scarlatta

Tassonomia

The scarlet-crowned barbet is monotypic.<p>The New World barbets are more closely related to the toucan barbets (family Semnornithidae) and toucans (family Ramphastidae) than they are to the Asian and African barbets (families Megalaimidae and Lybiidae) despite all of the barbets' similar appearance.

Nome scientifico

Capito aurovirens

Autorità

(Cuvier, 1829)

Ordine

Piciformi

Famiglia

Capitonidae

Genere

Capito

Areale e habitat

The scarlet-crowned barbet is found in the central Amazon Basin. In the west it extends from the Andean foothills of southern Colombia through eastern Ecuador to east-central Peru. East and south it reaches the Negro River in northwestern Brazil, the municipality of Tefé on the upper Amazon in central Brazil, and Acre in west-central Brazil. It inhabits progressively drier forest types from swamp through várzea and transitional to secondary forest. It tends to stay near water and uses all levels of the forest from the ground to the canopy. In elevation it ranges from the lowlands to only 500 to 600 m (1,600 to 2,000 ft) in the Andean foothills.

Migrazione

Resident species

Comportamento

Though the details of the scarlet-crowned barbet's diet are not known, it does eat berries, fruit, and insects. It gleans branches, twigs, live foliage, and clusters of dead leaves. It seldom joins mixed-species foraging flocks.<p>The scarlet-crowned barbet breeds at almost any time of year in some part of its range, with the exception of September to November. Its nest has not been described though all members of the family nest in tree cavities that they excavate.<p>The scarlet-crowned barbet's song is "a series of low 'ttroup' or 'ttdoot' notes [1], and it countersings. Its calls are described as "grating-like" [2].

Conservazione

Tendenza della popolazione

stable