These are omnivorous birds overall, but crested barbets do eat a great deal of fruit, including figs and jackal berries. After digesting the fruit, they regurgitate the seeds, which helps spread vegetation and restore habitat in many areas.

What Barbets eat?

Diet. The crested barbet feeds on insects, other birds' eggs and fruits and sometimes mice.

Do loeries eat apples?

These should include among others, Barbets, Loeries, Mousebirds, and Bulbuls. Apples bananas, oranges, pawpaws, melons, tomatoes, and many more are suitable. Overripe fruit is perfectly suitable, but NEVER offer mouldy rotten fruit.