Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus)

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burundi, 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, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, 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 NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (56)...)

Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus) [XC99825]
by Bram Piot from Road from Nyasoso to Tombel, Cameroon (song)

Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus) [XC104551]
by Jason Anderson from Mankon Sacred Forest, Mankon, Cameroon (song)

Subspecies
Often placed in monotypic genus Trachylaemus, but morphology, plumage, behaviour and some vocalizations similar to those of Crested Barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii), which thus connects present species to Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus) and others.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

goffinii (Goffin, 1863) - Sierra Leone east to Ghana-Togo border.
togoensis (Reichenow, 1891) - Extreme eastern Ghana to south-western Nigeria.
purpuratus Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851 - South-eastern Nigeria east to southern Central African Republic, south to northern Angola and central Zaire.
elgonensis Sharpe, 1891 - Southern Sudan and eastern Zaire east to western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus) - 10 files

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