A large, colorful barbet that lives in tall trees in Hong Kong. Several birds may gather at fruiting trees.
Its very heavy yellowish bill stands out. The head is blue, the mantle and wing coverts brown, the flight feathers and tail blue-green, and the pale yellow underparts are heavily spotted with brown.
It stays high in the tree canopy, usually alone or in pairs. Several may gather at fruiting trees, and it eats fruit and large insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The Tuensang market survey in Nagaland recorded 264 Great Barbets at the market between May 2009 and April 2010. The paper lists a mean body weight of 243 g and a price of INR 100.