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Coppersmith Barbet

Psilopogon haemacephalus · Family Megalaimidae

Psilopogon haemacephalus

Family Megalaimidae

Order
Piciformes
Family
Megalaimidae
GBIF occurrence records
601,847
Countries and territories with records
22
Coppersmith Barbet
J.M.Garg · Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala) calling in Hyderabad W IMG 8290.jpg · CC BY 3.0 · J.M.Garg · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 601,847 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (78.4%), Thailand (10.2%), the Philippines (2.7%), Cambodia (1.6%) and Sri Lanka (1.3%); together they account for 94.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.77% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Psilopogon haemacephalus combines the genus name Psilopogon with the species epithet haemacephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 33 species of the genus Psilopogon; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Psilopogon viridis, Psilopogon nuchalis and Psilopogon zeylanicus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 35 species of the family Megalaimidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 8.7 times the family average (69,300). The family Megalaimidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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