The bird and the bee.

Female red-headed barbet, Ecuador, March 18, 2016.

Eubucco bourcierii
The Red-headed Barbet feeds primarily on fruit, but also take arthropods, which it sometimes gathers by searching through dead leaf clusters. The nest is an enlarged woodpecker cavity or a self-excavated hole in a rotting tree.

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