Bird watching in Africa - Yellow-breasted Barbet

The Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan.

Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net

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Yellow-breasted Barbet with an insect

Assamo, Djibouti - September 2018

Listen to the Yellow-breasted Barbet

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Song in response to playback from a pair of birds perched at the top of a tall tree in rocky, dry thorn forest near the edge of a river.

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded at Awash Falls using my ZOOM H5 Handy recorder. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity

Bird sitting in some bushes when I record the Black-billed Barbet. Recording XC506766

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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