barbate

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There were scarlet-crowned barbets — small fruit-eating birds related to toucans — and yellow-browed sparrows, an edge-dwelling species that seemed as poised as any to thrive in a new world of micro-forests surrounded by grasslands.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

He could hear barbets and starlings in the sky, the call of a roller in a nearby tree, the grunt of a cape buffalo somewhere in the middle distance.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2021

I have spent entire mornings in a friend’s garden doing nothing but listening to bird songs: orioles, coppersmith barbets, Malabar trogons.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

During her morning strolls around the edges of the plantation, Katy, armed with her “Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent,” spotted greater racket-tailed drongos, white-cheeked barbets and Malabar parakeets, among other species.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

March and April are the months in which the majority of coppersmiths or crimson-breasted barbets rear up their families.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas