Profile
In flight
Tropical Birds
Taiwan Barbet
Psilopogon nuchalis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
Taiwan's beloved 'five-color bird,' a green monk hammering its tireless 'tonk-tonk-tonk' through every city park. Bright as a stained-glass window in a banyan tree.
- Population
- Taiwan endemic; common throughout the island
- Habitat
- Taiwan endemic; broadleaf woodland, city parks and orchards from lowlands to mid-elevations
- Diet
- figs and other fruit, occasional insects
- Size
- 0.22 m
- Wingspan
- 0.32 m
