The Story
I photographed this female Scarlet-crowned Barbet (Capito aurovirens) at the Nowen Bridge in Puerto Concordia, Meta, Colombia, in February 2021. Females have a white crown that fades to olive on the nape, where males have a red crown. Both sexes are mostly olive green with a whitish chin and an orange-yellow throat and upper breast. Like all barbets it is a chunky bird with a heavy bill, about 19 centimeters long, and it lives in the central Amazon Basin. Young Scarlet Ibises start out a mix of gray, brown and white, and the scarlet color, produced by a diet heavy in red crustaceans, comes in gradually over about two years, starting on the back.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender, at 1/250 sec, f/16, ISO 1600, +1.5 EV. IUCN lists the Scarlet-crowned Barbet as Least Concern.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Scarlet-crowned Barbet (Capito aurovirens) belongs to the family Capitonidae (New World Barbets) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2018), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List