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 LC    Double-toothed Barbet* Id (Atlas):
    Pogonornis bidentatus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Double-toothed Barbet, Tooth-billed Barbet

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1798)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Double-toothed Barbet (Lybius bidentatus) [XC300438]
     by Frank Lambert from Negash lodge, Ethiopia (call)

 
Double-toothed Barbet (Lybius bidentatus) [XC811132]
     by Andrew Spencer from West Kolwa (near Kisumu), Kisumu Central, Kisumu County, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Relationship with Bearded Barbet (Pogonornis dubius) and Black-breasted Barbet (Pogonornis rolleti) indicated by plumage pattern and by sexual dimorphism in flank pattern. Related also, but less closely, to Black-backed Barbet (Lybius minor) and Brown-breasted Barbet (Pogonornis melanopterus). Subspecies only slightly differentiated.

Proposed subspecies friedmanni from southern Cameroon to Cabinda (northern Angola) and aethiops from Ethiopia now included within aequatorialis.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • bidentatus (Shaw, 1798)   -  Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia east to central Cameroon.
  • aequatorialis (Shelley, 1889)   -  Eastern Cameroon east to central Ethiopia, south to north-western Angola, northern Zaire, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.



References
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Files:
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