Five-Coloured Barbet
Capito quinticolorElliot, DG, 1865
English (US) Five-colored Barbet
UK name: Five-Coloured Barbet
The Five-Coloured Barbet (Capito quinticolor) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Capitonidae (New World Barbets) in the order Piciformes.
Range: western Colombia (Chocó) to far northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Capito quinticolor
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Five-colored Barbet
- English (UK)
- Five-Coloured Barbet
- Described by
- Elliot, DG, 1865
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Elliot, DG, 1865
- Type locality
- Colombia.
- Original description
- Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Bulletin 1, fasc.4 p.76 pl.4 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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