Current view: Data table and detailed info
Taxonomic note
Psilopogon rubricapillus and P. malabaricus (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously placed in the genus Megalaima and lumped as M. rubricapillus following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993), with the gender agreement following David and Gosselin (2002a).
Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Red List criteria met and history
Red List criteria met
Red List history
| Migratory status |
not a migrant |
Forest dependency |
medium |
| Land-mass type |
|
Average mass |
38 g |
Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be common in the wet lowlands and more local in the dry zone (del Hoyo et al. 2002). This species is considered to have a medium dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 4.4% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). Therefore, as a precautionary measure, it is tentatively suspected that this loss of cover may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame.
Trend justification: .
Country/territory distribution
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Sri Lanka Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/sri-lanka-barbet-psilopogon-rubricapillus on 26/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/12/2024.
