Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus)

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1826)

Habitat
Dry savanna, inland wetlands and springs. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) [XC361800]
by Barry Edmonston from Assamo, Djibouti (song, chorus of 3 individuals)

Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) [XC300787]
by Andrew Spencer from Awash National Park, Ethiopia (duet, song, duet song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus), and they are sometimes considered conspecific. Both are related rather closely to D'Arnaud's Barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii), less so to Crested Barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii). Validity of subdivision into subspecies perhaps questionable. Also, north-eastern Sudan birds, described as subspecies kingi, and those from central Sudan, as berberensis, both considered indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

margaritatus (Cretzschmar, 1826) - Eastern Mauritania east to Chad, central and north-eastern Sudan, northern Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
somalicus Zedlitz, 1910 - Eastern Ethiopia and Djibouti to northern Somalia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) - 10 files

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