Blue Throated Barbet with seeds on its beak, Bhutan

The blue-throated barbet (Psilopogon asiaticus) is an Asian barbet having bright green, blue & red plumage, seen across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills; this species eats fruits and insects. They frequent evergreen forests, deciduous forests, gardens, orchards, teak forests and cities with fruiting trees. They are typically seen foraging in the forest canopy, but will visit lower shrubs to feed. Their staple diet consists of fruits (particularly figs), some flowers, figs and insects, such as grubs, crickets, mantises, ants, cicadas, dragonflies, locusts, beetles and moths.

It is found in Primary and secondary evergreen and deciduous mountain forest, also clearings, edges, orchards. This is classified as least concern by IUCN. Not globally threatened. Common almost everywhere in range; common but local in Pakistan, where possibly expanding range; common in Nepal.