Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta)

Other Names (World)
Hairy-breasted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Toothbill, Spot-headed Barbet (flavipunctata)

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1821)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (36)...)

Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) [XC126600]
by Josh Engel from Ashanti Forest Region, Ghana (song)

Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) [XC265434]
by Phil Gregory from Kanyanchu, Kibale Forest, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
No close relatives. Exact delimitation of subspecies difficult owing to intergradation. Nominate and subspecies flavipunctata hybridize over an extensive zone, roughly from Ghana to southern Nigeria.

Proposed subspecies hybrida (Niger Delta) and chapini (south-eastern Cameroon east to central Zaire) considered indistinguishable from, respectively, nominate and ansorgii.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

hirsuta (Swainson, 1821) - Sierra Leone east to south-central Nigeria (Niger Delta).
flavipunctata Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1855 - From at least south-eastern Nigeria through Cameroon (except south-east) to central Gabon.
ansorgii Shelley, 1895 - South-eastern Cameroon east to western Kenya, south to eastern Congo, central Zaire and north-western Tanzania.
angolensis Neumann, 1908 - Southern Gabon and southern Congo south to north-western Angola and southern Zaire.

References
See References.

Files:

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