Barbets are large, headed stout-billed birds, usually with colourful plumage. Like woodpeckers they are hole nesters, but are generally frugivorous. Woodpeckers have powerful chisel shaped bills with which they excavate nesting burrows in trees. Honeyguides are included here
Barbets are large, headed stout-billed birds, usually with colourful plumage. Like woodpeckers they are hole nesters, but are generally frugivorous. Woodpeckers have powerful chisel shaped bills with which they excavate nesting burrows in trees. Honeyguides are included here 
