Lineated barbet

Lineated barbet
On a Goolar fig (Ficus racemosa) in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Megalaimidae
Genus: Psilopogon
Species: P. lineatus
Binomial name
Psilopogon lineatus
(Vieillot, 1816)
Synonyms

Megalaima lineata

The lineated barbet (Psilopogon lineatus) is a large barbet found in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, along the southern foothills of the Himalayas and also in parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal. Like other barbets it is a frugivore. In nests inside holes bored into tree trunks.

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