This is one of my favorite barbets, a Blue-throated barbet. The color combination is, in my opinion, so varied and yet balanced: sparkling green, yellow, red, black, blue, gray and bone colored... Hard to beat! It has a fairly wide range: it is found in most of the Himalayas and northern Southeast Asia. It subsists mainly on fruit and seems to have developed a special fondness for guava (Psidium guajava), which is a South American fruit but which is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia.