Five-coloured barbet

Five-coloured barbet
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Capitonidae
Genus: Capito
Species: C. quinticolor
Binomial name
Capito quinticolor
Elliot, 1865

The five-coloured barbet (Capito quinticolor) is a species of bird in the Capitonidae family. It is endemic to humid forest in the Chocó of north-western Ecuador and south-western Colombia. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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