Vieillot's Barbet (Lybius vieilloti)

Other Scientific Names
Lybius vielloti [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Leach, 1815)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo.

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 (21)...)

Vieillot's Barbet (Lybius vieilloti) [XC402752]
by Bram Piot from Bouna, Savanes, Ivory Coast (song)

Vieillot's Barbet (Lybius vieilloti) [XC618058]
by Peter Boesman from N'Djamena, Chari, N'Djamena, Chad (song)

Subspecies
Not very closely related to congeners, probably closest to the group comprising White-headed Barbet (Lybius leucocephalus), Zambian Barbet (Lybius chaplini) and Red-faced Barbet (Lybius rubrifacies). Subspecies ill-defined, with some mosaic variation, and clinal variation in colour intensity.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

buchanani Hartert, 1924 - Southern Mauritania and Mali east to southern Chad, and south to southern Sahel region (east to north-central Nigeria).
rubescens (Temminck, 1823) - Sahel fringe from Gambia and Sierra Leone east to central Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Central African Republic and north-central Zaire, reaching coast from Ivory Coast to Nigeria.
vieilloti (Leach, 1815) - Central Sudan and north-western Ethiopia south to north-eastern Zaire, southern Sudan and western Ethiopia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Vieillots Barbet (Lybius vieilloti) - 10 files

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