The yellow-eared barbet (''Psilopogon australis'') is an

Asian barbet The Asian barbets are a family of bird species, the Megalaimidae, comprising two genera with 35 species native to the forests of the Indomalayan realm from Tibet to Indonesia. They were once clubbed with all barbets in the family Capitonidae bu ...

native to

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

and Bali. It inhabits shrubland and forest up to an altitude of . ''Bucco australis'' was the scientific name proposed by

Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company ...

in 1821 who described a barbet from Java with yellow cheeks and breast.

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* yellow-eared barbet Birds of Java Birds of Bali yellow-eared barbet {{Piciformes-stub