Sira Barbet

The Sirabartvogel ( Capito fitzpatricki ) is a species of bird in the family of American barbets ( Capitonidae ). The species was first described in 2012 and named in honor of John Weaver Fitzpatrick, a curator of the bird collection at the Field Museum of Natural History and Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It is only known from three sites on the eastern slope of the southern Cerros del Sira in the Peruvian region of Ucayali.

Appearance

The Sirabartvogel similar in plumage and morphology strongly the Loreto Barbet ( Capito wallacei ), differs from this but by the color of the sides of the body ( blood red as compared to yellow- orange in C. wallacei ), the larger and differently colored breast band ( purple in the compared to scarlet in C. wallacei ), the lower black part in the coloring and in the coloring of the Beinbefiederung (black in C. fitzpatricki compared to gray in C. wallacei ). The purple chest band of Sirabartvogels is about 22 mm wide in the middle, the scarlet of Loreto beard bird only about 15 mm. When Sirabartvogel a white line runs from the red rump up to the tail feathers.

Wings and tail of the Sirabartvogels are longer than in Loreto - beard bird 's beak wider. The wing length is from 9.0 to 9,7 cm, the tail length at 5.3 to 6.0 cm, and the beak is 10.6 to 12.0 mm wide.

Habitat

The habitat and the type locality of Sirabartvogels consists of wet mountain forests at altitudes of about 1100 meters. The larger trees in its area of ​​distribution are covered about 30 m high and with epiphytes, ferns and moss. In the subtropical cloud forest on the main ridge of the Sira in 1700 to 2200 meters, it was not found.

System

Probably the most occurring in the neighboring region of Loreto Loreto Barbet is the sister species and thus the closest relative of the Sirabartvogels. Both species were probably produced by allopatric speciation from a Ursprungsart.