The Lineated Barbet is an elusive and rather shy bird that hides quickly inside the branches when it realises it has been spotted. This rather beautiful bird has a bright green plumage, a brown head, yellow eye-patches, red beak and star-spangled streaks along its wings. The bird enjoys feeding on fig fruits. The bird has a distinct though subdued 'kurk...kurk' call.
It was a joy to spot one of these birds feasting on figs on the fig tree in front of my house in Palam Vihar. Incidentally, the sun was behind me and so the Barbet couldn't see me clearly as that would mean peering into the bright sun. Like the Green Pigeon, the Lineated Barbet is an arboreal bird that lives most of its life in the branches of trees.
All of these photographs were taken with a Canon 1500 D and a Canon USM 70-300 mm lens. I used a ISO setting of 100 to get sharper photographs.
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