Scarlet-hooded Barbet

Eubucco tucinkae (Seilern, 1913)

Scarlet-hooded Barbet, Eubucco tucinkae, is a New World barbet of the upper Amazon Basin in South America, recorded from eastern Peru, western Brazil and western Bolivia. It is a bird of dense undergrowth with bamboo and Heliconia, usually close to rivers, oxbow lakes and river islands, and also in overgrown riverside gardens. The male has a red head, throat and upper mantle with black around the eye and bill, green upperparts, and orange and yellow on the lower breast. The female is similar, but the throat is yellow and the upper breast has an orange band.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Capitonidae — New World Barbets

Breeding range

South America: sw Amazonia