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Gilded Barbet Capito auratus
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Brazil and Ecuador
The Gilded Barbet is distributed in the western parts of the Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and
Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in a variety of forest habitats, secondary growth and in gardens and plantations.
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There is disagreement over the status of this species. Some authorities treat it as conspecific with
Black-spotted Barbet Capito niger however most now treat it as a separate species. |
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The male, seen in the 1st photo, on the left of the second photo and in photos 4 and 5, has an orange-red or
orange throat, yellow unmarked chest with browny streaks on the flanks of the belly. The forecrown is buffy-yellow. The female, on the right of photo
2 and in photos 3 and 6 looks similar from below apart from the heavy streaking on the breast and belly. |
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There are 8 sub-species grouped into red-throated and orange-throated. Photos 1 to 3 taken at São Gabriel
da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil are probably of the sub-species C. a. aurantiicinctus while photos 4 to 6 from eastern Ecuador are of the
sub-species C. a. punctatus.
They eat mainly fruit but, at times, supplement this diet with insects. The female in the 3rd photo is
feeding at a Cecropia.
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