Coppersmith Barbet

Smallest barbet at 17 cm. The dark, stout bill is fringed with bristles or barbs, which give the barbets their name. It is brightly coloured, with red legs and feet; bright green upperparts; greenish white underparts with diagnostic bold green streaks; black-bordered yellow face with black eye stripes, red forecrown and throat patch. Sexes are alike. The most common and widespread of the barbets found in India.