Green-eared Barbet

The green-eared barbet is a plump, short-tailed canopy bird 24.5–27 cm long. Most of its plumage is green, but the brown head and breast are finely streaked white, the ear-coverts form a clear green patch, and the yellowish belly is streaked green. Its heavy bill and eye-ring are dark. Sexes and immature birds look similar. Compared with the lineated barbet it is smaller and shows green ears, a darker bill and a dark rather than yellow eye-ring (Robson, as summarised in Wikipedia's general species account).

Resident in southern China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, it inhabits evergreen, semi-evergreen, mixed and open broadleaf woodland, mainly below 900 m. Quiet green plumage makes a stationary bird difficult to see in the canopy, although its repeated call often reveals it. The diet is dominated by fruit such as figs and berries, with insects also taken. A breeding pair excavates a cavity in a tree and lays two eggs (BirdForum species account; Oiseaux.net, citing Bird et al. 2020 and Myhrvold et al. 2015).