Wildlife & Flora
Great Barbet
Great Barbet (Megalaima virens) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Phedi, Dhampus, Pothana.
- Scientific name
- Megalaima virens
- Local name
- Nyauli
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
The Great Barbet produces what is perhaps the most incessant sound of spring and summer in Nepal. Whether you like it or not, you will have to put up with its "pihuuuu, pihuuuu" throughout the day. Local folklore relates this call to the sad yearning of a separated lover and many folk songs pay tribute to the 'nyauli' bird (nepali name of Great Barbet) in their lyrics. If you really want to see one of these birds, you will have to be very patient as they seldom come out of the dense foliage while calling.
