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Prong-billed Barbet

Semnornis frantzii

Description:

Relatively large-billed bird native to humid highland forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. DNA studies have confirmed that this bird, is more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets The prong-billed barbet likes cool, wet-mountain forest with large trees and gaps. Eats mainly fruits of trees and epiphytes, although it occasionally takes insects or flower petals

Habitat:

Cloud forest

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1 Comment

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 8 years ago

Beautiful!

Jonathan Sequeira
Spotted by
Jonathan Sequeira

Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Spotted on Dec 28, 2015
Submitted on Jan 12, 2016

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