Black-spotted Barbet

Black-spotted Barbet

Taxobox
name = Black-spotted Barbet


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Piciformes
familia = Capitonidae
genus = "Capito"
species = "C. niger"
binomial = "Capito niger"
binomial_authority = (Statius Müller, 1776)
synonyms =

The Black-spotted Barbet ("Capito niger") is a species of bird in the Capitonidae family.

It is found in E Colombia, E Peru, Brazil, the Guianas, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. Previously, it included the Gilded Barbet of the southern and western Amazon basin as subspecies. As currently defined, the Black-spotted Barbet is monotypic.

The western range limit of the Black-spotted Barbet is eastern Venezuela, mostly border areas, and to the south in Brazil's Roraima state, the bird is only found on the eastern banks of the south-flowing Branco River. The species only ranges north of the Amazon River, and is found in the northeast Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Roraima, Pará, and Amapá, on the Atlantic coast bordering French Guiana. The Black-spotted Barbet's range is one contiguous region, centered on the Guiana Highlands, and the northeast Amazon Basin.

References

* BirdLife International 2006. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/47510/all Capito niger] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=3696 Black-spotted Barbet videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/recent/nantil/birds2002/2.htm Stamp] (for Netherlands Antilles) Bird Series
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=black-spotted+barbet&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Black-spotted Barbet photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Capito+niger Photo-High Res]
* [http://www.nashvillezoo.org/piciformes/images/black_spotted_barbet2.jpgPhoto-Medium Res] ; [http://www.nashvillezoo.org/piciformes/ramphastidae.htm Article] nashvillezoo.org—"Ramphastidae"
* [http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/piciformes/images/cabezon.tachete.mach.1g.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://www.oiseaux.net/photos/marc.chretien/cabezon.tachete.1.html Article] oiseaux


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