Black-throated Barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala)

Other Names (World)
Black-throated Barbet, African Black-throated Barbet, Brown-throated Barbet, Yellow-cheeked Barbet (flavibuccalis)

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1826)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,820 m.

Range (Guide)

Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], 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 (25)...)

Black-throated Barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) [XC452039]
by Peter Boesman from Road past Engikaret, Monduli, Arusha Region, Tanzania (call)

Black-throated Barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) [XC510442]
by Oliver Fowler from Near Lembeni, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Closely related to Spot-flanked Barbet (Tricholaema lacrymosa), but not so close as to form a superspecies. Subspecies moderately distinctive; flavibuccalis, known from few north-central Tanzanian specimens, sometimes considered a separate species, or a megasubspecies, though it could actually be no more than a morph.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

melanocephala (Cretzschmar, 1826) - Northern and central Ethiopia, Djibouti and north-western Somalia.
stigmatothorax Cabanis, 1878 - South-eastern Sudan, southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia, south to central Tanzania.
blandi Lort Phillips, 1897 - Central-northern and north-eastern Somalia.
flavibuccalis Reichenow, 1893 - North-central Tanzania (Seronera region and Wembere steppes).

References
See References.

Files:

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