Versicolored barbet


The versicolored barbet is a very colorful species of bird in the family Capitonidae. The species is also known as the blue-moustached barbet. It is found in humid Yungas forest growing on the east Andean slopes in Peru and Bolivia.

Taxonomy

The versicolored barbet was described by Statius Müller in 1776 as Bucco versicolor, based on a specimen collected in Maynas in Peru.

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