Gilded Barbet

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Capitonidae

Genus

Capito

eBird Code

gilbar1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (8)

• Capito auratus amazonicus

  western Brazil south of the Amazon River from upper Rio Jurúa eastward to Rio Purus

• Capito auratus aurantiicinctus

  Venezuela (upper Río Orinoco region, western Bolivar, and Amazonas)

• Capito auratus auratus

  northeastern Peru (mouth of Río Napo south along Amazon River and Río Ucayali)

• Capito auratus hypochondriacus

  northern Brazil (Roraima along Rio Branco to Rio Negro and Solimões)

• Capito auratus insperatus

  southeastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil (Calama)

• Capito auratus nitidior

  far eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela to Peru/Brazil border

• Capito auratus orosae

  eastern Peru (Río Orosa to Río Javari, southward to far western Brazil in Acre)

• Capito auratus punctatus

  south-central Colombia along lower eastern Andes to central Peru (Junín)