Brown-headed Barbet

The brown-headed barbet is an Asian barbet of the Indian subcontinent, widespread from the Terai in southern Nepal to Sri Lanka and most of peninsular India. The adult has a streaked brown head, neck and breast and a yellow eye patch, with green plumage elsewhere. It is 27 cm long with a large head, short neck and short tail. Its call is a repetitive kutroo, taken up by others when one starts, and it is silent in winter (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is an arboreal species of gardens and wooded country, eating fruit and insects, and is fairly tolerant of people. The nominate subspecies is listed for south India and Sri Lanka, and the species was described from a specimen collected in Sri Lanka. Nationally Least Concern (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012, listed as Megalaima zeylanica).