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The '''great barbet''' (''Psilopogon virens'') is an [[Megalaimidae|Asian barbet]] native to the [[Indian sub-continent]] and [[Southeast Asia]], where it inhabits |
The '''great barbet''' ('''''Psilopogon virens''''') is an [[Megalaimidae|Asian barbet]] native to the [[Indian sub-continent]] and [[Southeast Asia]], where it inhabits forests up to {{convert|3000|m|abbr=on}} altitude. It has been listed as [[Least Concern]] on the [[IUCN Red List]] since 2004 because of its wide distribution.<ref name=iucn/> |
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==Taxonomy== |
==Taxonomy== |
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[[File:4G4A9836.jpg|thumb|Great barbet in [[Ba Bể National Park]]]] |
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The great barbet was described by the French polymath [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] in 1781 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux'' from a specimen collected in China.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1781 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=Volume 13 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | page=159 | chapter=Le grand barbu | language=French | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42410640 }}</ref> The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by [[François-Nicolas Martinet]] in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of [[Edme-Louis Daubenton]] to accompany Buffon's text.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | chapter=Grand barbu, de la Chine | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle | volume=Volume 9 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | at=Plate 871 | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35224645 }}</ref> Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist [[Pieter Boddaert]] coined the [[binomial name]] ''Bucco virens'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | publisher= | place=Utrecht | page=53, Number 871 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822673 | language=French }}</ref> |
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''Bucco virens'' was the [[scientific name]] proposed by [[Pieter Boddaert]] in 1783 for a great barbet that had been described by [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] in 1781 based on a specimen collected in China.<ref>{{cite book |last=Boddaert |first=P. |year=1783 |title=Table des Planches Enluminées d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés |location=Utrecht |chapter=871. Le grand Barbu, Buff. XIII |page=53 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/tabledesplanches00bodd/page/52 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Buffon |first=G.-L. L. |year=1781 |title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=13 |location=Paris |publisher=L'Imprimerie Royale |page=159 |chapter=Le grand Barbu |language=fr |chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42410640}}</ref> It was illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by [[François-Nicolas Martinet]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Buffon |first=G.-L. L. | last2=Martinet | first2=F.-N. |last3=Daubenton |first3=E.-L. | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton |last4=Daubenton | first4=L.-J.-M. |author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton |year=1765–1783 |chapter=Grand barbu, de la Chine |title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle |volume=9 |location=Paris |publisher=L'Imprimerie Royale |page=Plate 871 |chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35224645}}</ref> |
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It was placed in the [[Genus (biology)|genus]] ''Megalaima'' proposed by [[George Robert Gray]] in 1842 who suggested to use this name instead of ''Bucco''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=G. R. |year=1842 |title=A List of the Genera of Birds |chapter=Appendix to a List of the Genera of Birds |edition=Second |location=London |publisher=R. and J. E. Taylor |page=12 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/listofgeneraofbi00gra/page/12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Peters |editor-first=J. L. |editor-link=James L. Peters |year=1948 |title=Check-list of Birds of the World |volume=6 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |chapter=Genus ''Megalaima'' G. R. Gray |pages=31–40 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/checklistofbirds61948pete/page/30}}</ref> In the 19th and 20th centuries, the following great barbet [[zoological specimen]]s were described: |
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*''Megalaema marshallorum'' proposed by [[Robert Swinhoe]] in 1870 was based on a great barbet from the [[Himalayas]].<ref>{{ cite journal |author=Swinhoe. R. |year=1870 |title=The large Barbet of the Himalayas in want of a Name! |journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology |series=4 |volume=6 |issue=31 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002133806/page/348 348] |url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002133806|doi=10.1080/00222937008696265 }}</ref> |
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*''Megalaima virens magnifica'' proposed by [[E. C. Stuart Baker]] in 1926 was a male barbet from [[Machi, Manipur]].<ref>{{ cite journal |author=Baker, E. C. S. |year=1926 |title=Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker sent the following remarks on Oriental birds |journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club |volume=47 |issue=308 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis47tayl/page/41 41]–45 |url=https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis47tayl}}</ref> |
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*''Megalaima virens clamator'' proposed by [[Ernst Mayr]] in 1941 was a bird collected in northern [[Myanmar]].<ref>{{ cite journal |author=Stanford, J. K. |author2=Mayr, E. |year=1941 |title=The Vernay‐Cutting Expedition to Northern Burma. Part V |journal=Ibis |volume=83 |issue=4 |pages=479–518 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1941.tb00647.x}}</ref> |
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⚫ | [[Molecular phylogenetic]] research of barbets revealed that the birds in the genus ''Megalaima'' form a [[clade]], which also includes the [[fire-tufted barbet]], the only [[species]] placed in the genus ''[[Psilopogon]]'' at the time. Barbets formerly placed in this genus were therefore reclassified under the oldest genus name of ''Psilopogon''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moyle |first=R. G. |year=2004 |title=Phylogenetics of barbets (Aves: Piciformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=30 |issue= 1|pages=187–200 |doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00179-9|pmid=15022769 }}</ref><ref name=HBW2014>{{cite book |author=del Hoyo, J. |author2=Collar, N. J. |author3=Kirwan, G. M. |title=Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World |volume=7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers |editor=del Hoyo, J. |editor2=Elliott, A. |editor3=Sargatal, J. |editor4=Christie, D. A. |editor5=de Juana, E. |publisher=Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International |location=Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK |chapter=Great Barbet ''Psilopogon virens'' |year=2020 |doi=10.2173/bow.grebar1.01 |s2cid=216472706 |chapter-url=https://www.hbw.com/species/great-barbet-psilopogon-virens}}</ref> |
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The generic name ''Psilopogon'' combines the [[Ancient Greek]] ''psilos'' meaning "bare" and ''pōgōn'' meaning "beard". The [[specific epithet]] ''virens'' is the Latin word for "green".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=321, 402 }}</ref> |
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Four great barbet [[subspecies]] are recognised as of 2014:<ref name=HBW2014/> |
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⚫ | Results of a phylogenetic study of Asian barbets indicate that the great barbet is most closely related to the [[red-vented barbet]] (''P. lagrandieri'') occurring in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Den Tex |first1=R.-J. |last2=Leonard |first2=J. A. |title=A molecular phylogeny of Asian barbets: Speciation and extinction in the tropics |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=1–13 |year=2013 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.004 |pmid=23511217 |citeseerx=10.1.1.711.3975 }}</ref> |
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==Description== |
==Description== |
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The great barbet has a blue head, large yellow bill, brown and green-streaked body, belly and a red vent. The [[Feather|plumage]] is green. It is the largest barbet species with a body length of {{convert|32|–|35|cm|in|abbr=on}} and a weight of {{convert|192|-|295|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name=HBW2014/><ref>{{cite book |author=Grimmett, R. |author2=Inskipp, T. |year=2018 |title=Birds of Northern India |location=London, New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781408188743 |pages=Plate 14 |chapter=Great Barbet | |
The great barbet has a blue head, large yellow bill, brown and green-streaked body, belly and a red vent. The [[Feather|plumage]] is green. It is the largest barbet species with a body length of {{convert|32|–|35|cm|in|abbr=on}} and a weight of {{convert|192|-|295|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name=HBW2014/><ref>{{cite book |author=Grimmett, R. |author2=Inskipp, T. |year=2018 |title=Birds of Northern India |location=London, New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781408188743 |pages=Plate 14 |chapter=Great Barbet |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bRttDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT180}}</ref> |
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==Distribution and habitat == |
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⚫ | The great barbet is a resident breeder in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the [[Himalayas]], ranging across northern [[India]], [[Nepal]] and [[Bhutan]], [[Bangladesh]]<ref name=abc>{{cite book|last1=Ali|first1= |
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⚫ | The great barbet is a resident breeder in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the [[Himalayas]], ranging across northern [[Pakistan]], [[India]], [[Nepal]] and [[Bhutan]], [[Bangladesh]] and some parts of [[Southeast Asia]], as far away as [[Laos]].<ref name=iucn/><ref name=abc>{{cite book |last1=Ali|first1=S. |title=The Book of Indian Birds |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford}}</ref> |
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==Behaviour and ecology== |
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The diet of this species is mainly fruits and insects.<ref name=abc/> |
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*{{cite book |author=Robson, C. |year=2002 |title=A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand |publisher=New Holland |location=London, Sydney, Auckland |isbn=1-84330-921-1}} |
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== External links == |
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==Birdcall== |
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*{{cite web |title=Great Barbet ''Psilopogon virens'' |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/great-barbet-psilopogon-virens |author=Birdlife International |date=2019}} |
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File:Great Barbet in Himachal.JPG|Great barbet at [[Himachal]] |
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*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=756&m=0 Birdlife International] |
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* Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ''Birds of India'' {{ISBN|0-691-04910-6}} |
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*Robson, Craig ''A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand'' {{ISBN|1-84330-921-1}} |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Megalaimidae |
Genus: | Psilopogon |
Species: | P. virens
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Binomial name | |
Psilopogon virens (Boddaert, 1783)
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The great barbet (Psilopogon virens) is an Asian barbet native to the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft) altitude. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004 because of its wide distribution.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Bucco virens was the scientific name proposed by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 for a great barbet that had been described by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1781 based on a specimen collected in China.[2][3] It was illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet.[4]
It was placed in the genus Megalaima proposed by George Robert Gray in 1842 who suggested to use this name instead of Bucco.[5][6] In the 19th and 20th centuries, the following great barbet zoological specimens were described:
- Megalaema marshallorum proposed by Robert Swinhoe in 1870 was based on a great barbet from the Himalayas.[7]
- Megalaima virens magnifica proposed by E. C. Stuart Baker in 1926 was a male barbet from Machi, Manipur.[8]
- Megalaima virens clamator proposed by Ernst Mayr in 1941 was a bird collected in northern Myanmar.[9]
Molecular phylogenetic research of barbets revealed that the birds in the genus Megalaima form a clade, which also includes the fire-tufted barbet, the only species placed in the genus Psilopogon at the time. Barbets formerly placed in this genus were therefore reclassified under the oldest genus name of Psilopogon.[10][11]
Four great barbet subspecies are recognised as of 2014:[11]
- P. v. virens occurs from central Myanmar, Thailand to Vietnam and China
- P. v. marshallorum occurs from northeastern Pakistan to western Nepal
- P. v. magnificus occurs from eastern Nepal to Assam
- P. v. clamator occurs from Assam and northern Myanmar to northern Thailand and Yunnan in China
Results of a phylogenetic study of Asian barbets indicate that the great barbet is most closely related to the red-vented barbet (P. lagrandieri) occurring in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.[12]
Description
[edit]The great barbet has a blue head, large yellow bill, brown and green-streaked body, belly and a red vent. The plumage is green. It is the largest barbet species with a body length of 32–35 cm (13–14 in) and a weight of 192–295 g (6.8–10.4 oz).[11][13]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The great barbet is a resident breeder in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas, ranging across northern Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan, Bangladesh and some parts of Southeast Asia, as far away as Laos.[1][14]
Behaviour and ecology
[edit]The great barbet's nesting season is from April to July. It typically builds nests in tree holes. Both male and females take care of the young. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and insects.[14] The male's territorial call is a very loud kay-oh. The alarm is a harsh keeab, and another call is a repetitive piou-piou-piou-piou.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c BirdLife International (2018). "Psilopogon virens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22681591A130043742. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22681591A130043742.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Boddaert, P. (1783). "871. Le grand Barbu, Buff. XIII". Table des Planches Enluminées d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 53.
- ^ Buffon, G.-L. L. (1781). "Le grand Barbu". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 13. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 159.
- ^ Buffon, G.-L. L.; Martinet, F.-N.; Daubenton, E.-L.; Daubenton, L.-J.-M. (1765–1783). "Grand barbu, de la Chine". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 9. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale. p. Plate 871.
- ^ Gray, G. R. (1842). "Appendix to a List of the Genera of Birds". A List of the Genera of Birds (Second ed.). London: R. and J. E. Taylor. p. 12.
- ^ Peters, J. L., ed. (1948). "Genus Megalaima G. R. Gray". Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 31–40.
- ^ Swinhoe. R. (1870). "The large Barbet of the Himalayas in want of a Name!". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 4. 6 (31): 348. doi:10.1080/00222937008696265.
- ^ Baker, E. C. S. (1926). "Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker sent the following remarks on Oriental birds". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 47 (308): 41–45.
- ^ Stanford, J. K.; Mayr, E. (1941). "The Vernay‐Cutting Expedition to Northern Burma. Part V". Ibis. 83 (4): 479–518. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1941.tb00647.x.
- ^ Moyle, R. G. (2004). "Phylogenetics of barbets (Aves: Piciformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30 (1): 187–200. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00179-9. PMID 15022769.
- ^ a b c d del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Kirwan, G. M. (2020). "Great Barbet Psilopogon virens". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D. A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International. doi:10.2173/bow.grebar1.01. S2CID 216472706.
- ^ Den Tex, R.-J.; Leonard, J. A. (2013). "A molecular phylogeny of Asian barbets: Speciation and extinction in the tropics". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 68 (1): 1–13. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.711.3975. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.004. PMID 23511217.
- ^ Grimmett, R.; Inskipp, T. (2018). "Great Barbet". Birds of Northern India. London, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. Plate 14. ISBN 9781408188743.
- ^ a b Ali, S. (1996). The Book of Indian Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Robson, C. (2002). A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand. London, Sydney, Auckland: New Holland. ISBN 1-84330-921-1.
External links
[edit]- Birdlife International (2019). "Great Barbet Psilopogon virens".