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Cloud Forest Habitat of the Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei |
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Cerros Cinco Puntas, Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul, SW Loreto, Peru |
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© 2005, Fraser Simpson |
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Barbet photograph | Back to Landscape & Habitat Photographs | Home |
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The barbet was only discovered in 1996 and described in 2000 by John O'Neill and Dan Lane. Known only from a single peak in a remote area of eastern Peru. Seen in the flesh by only a handful of observers. Read my article: The Day I Saw the Barbet
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