The male Red-headed Barbet has a red head and breast which contrast with the green upperparts and horn-colored bill.
The female lacks the red, and has pearly blue-gray cheeks.
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.

1st photo: A male. Manizales area, Colombia, 21 June 2015
2nd photo: The male parent is taking out the garbage from the nest. Manizales area, Colombia, 21 June 2015
3rd, 4th & 5th photo: A female. Old Buenavista Road, Cali area, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 13 June 2016