Psilopogon zeylanicus
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In 3 days >90%
The brown-headed barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) is an Asian barbet species native to the Indian subcontinent, where it inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. The brown-headed barbet was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the puffbirds in the genus Bucco and coined the binomial name Bucco zeylanicus. Gmelin based his description on the "yellow cheeked barbet" that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the naturalist Peter Brown from a specimen collected in Sri Lanka. The brown-headed barbet is now one of 32 barbets placed in the genus Psilopogon that was introduced in 1836 by Salomon Müller.
Three subspecies are recognised: Psilopogon zeylanicus inornatus (Walden, 1870) – west India Psilopogon zeylanicus caniceps (Franklin, 1831) – Nepal to central India Psilopogon zeylanicus zeylanicus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – south India and Sri Lanka The adult has a streaked brown head, neck and breast, and a yellow eye patch. The rest of the plumage is green. It is 27 cm (11 in) long with a large head, short neck... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 4 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Royal Bardia National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 8 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 11 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Ranthambore National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 14 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bhubaneshwar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Bareilly | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | New Delhi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Aligarh | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Varanasi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Patna | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Dehradun | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Gwalior | 🇮🇳 India |
Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-headed Barbet sighting in Bhubaneshwar on a given day, based on 1,078 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 5th most-seen of the 148 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January to March
In those months about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-headed Barbet in Bhubaneshwar on a given day, against about 50% in July and September–October, the lowest months. Those are among Bhubaneshwar's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 340 mm in July.
Between 3 and 6 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-headed Barbet sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Yes
Of the 26 cities where we can rate Brown-headed Barbet sightings, Bhubaneshwar has the highest daily chance: about 70%. Next come Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] (Sri Lanka, about 70%) and Bareilly (India, about 60%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-headed Barbet is recorded against all the birds logged in Bhubaneshwar (1,078 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
