Red-headed Barbet

• The American, African and Asian barbets share a name and look very alike, but they do not form a natural group: genetic studies have separated them into different families, and the resemblance is convergence.
• It excavates its own nest in trunks and branches of rotten wood, like a woodpecker, and a pair can take weeks to finish the cavity.
• Its name comes from the stiff bristles around the base of the bill, modified feathers whose function is still debated and that give the whole group its name.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Humid montane forest and foothill rainforest of Central America and the northern Andes

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

15 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Eubucco bourcierii