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Black-girdled Barbet | Capito dayi
Gordelbaardvogel | Cabezón brasileño | Capitão-de-cinta
The Black-girdled Barbet is a barbet of the southern Amazon basin in Brazil, which reaches the guide area only in the far north-east of Bolivia. Its name refers to the black band that runs from the flanks across the lower breast. It lives in the canopy of tall, mature forest.
Voice
The song is a steadily accelerating series of hollow boo notes. Also series such as rok rok ock ock and a grating rattle.
Recording: JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · xeno-canto
Identification
18 cm, robust, with a heavy, conical bill. The upperparts are black, the sides of the head black and the chin and throat brown. The upper breast is white to off-white and grades into a pale greenish-yellow belly; black flanks continue across the lower breast to form a girdle. The male has a scarlet crown and nape, the female a black one. Juveniles are duller.
Confusion species
Gilded Barbet Capito auratus has an orange to yellow throat and breast, yellow streaks on the back and spotted flanks, without a black girdle; it occurs in northern Bolivia. Lemon-throated Barbet Eubucco richardsoni is smaller and green above.
Habitat
The canopy of tall, evergreen terra firme and várzea forest and adjacent mature secondary forest, in the lowlands. It eats fruit and insects, sometimes in mixed flocks. It nests in a cavity in dead wood.
Where the bird is most at home, classified by the vegetation units of the Andes and the west coast.
Range and movements
In Bolivia only in the far north-east of Santa Cruz, on the border with Brazil. Absent from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Galápagos. Most of the range lies outside the guide area, in Brazil south of the Amazon (south-eastern Amazonas, southern Pará, north-western Mato Grosso and Rondônia).
- Resident
- dark = core range, pale = thinly spread
How and when to look
In the guide area mainly in the forest of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in Santa Cruz. Listen for the hollow, accelerating song from the treetops.
Conservation status
Vulnerable. The species depends on mature forest and is declining because of rapid deforestation in southern Amazonia.
Scientific name
Capito dayi | Cherrie, 1916
Cherrie described the species in 1916 and placed it straight away in the genus where it still stands. The genus Capito was introduced in 1816 by Vieillot. The genus name comes from Latin capito, 'big-headed'. The species name honours Lee Garnet Day, one of the leaders of the expedition on which the bird was discovered. The specimen the first description was based on came from Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.