Lineated Barbet

The lineated barbet is a large, heavy-billed barbet 25–30 cm long and weighing roughly 110–200 g. Adults have a brown head, throat and breast broadly streaked whitish, green back, wings and tail, a thick yellowish bill and a wide patch of yellow bare skin around the dark eye. Sexes are alike and juveniles closely resemble adults, though their colours are duller. The combination of a streaked brown forebody and green wings distinguishes it from Vietnam's mostly green, brightly headed barbets (Bird Society of Singapore; BirdForum species account).

Resident from the Indian subcontinent and southwestern China through mainland Southeast Asia to Java and Bali, it uses deciduous forest, forest edges, coastal scrub, plantations, gardens and parks. Fruit, particularly figs, dominates the diet, supplemented by flowers, nectar, insects and occasional small vertebrate prey. Its far-carrying territorial call is often repeated from high in a tree. Both adults excavate a cavity three to twelve metres above ground; breeding records indicate a clutch of two to four white eggs (BirdForum species account; Vietnam Wildlife Photography Club).