Barbets (Capitonidae)
Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus) - HBW 7, p. 175
French: Barbican à tête rouge
German: Flammenkopf-Bartvogel
Spanish: Barbudo Cabecirrojo
Taxonomy: Trachyphonus erythrocephalus Cabanis, 1878, Ukamba, south-west Kenya.
Forms a superspecies with T. margaritatus, with which sometimes thought conspecific; both rather closely related to T. darnaudii, less so to T. vaillantii. Proposed races gallarum (SC Ethiopia) and jacksoni (S Ethiopia to NC Kenya) probably represent intergrades of races shelleyi and versicolor. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- shelleyi Hartlaub, 1886 - SE Ethiopia to NW & S Somalia.
- versicolor Hartlaub, 1883 - NE Uganda and SE Sudan to S & CE Ethiopia and N Kenya.
- erythrocephalus Cabanis, 1878 - C Kenya to NE & NC Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male on the nest hole Locality Nanyangacor, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan (ssp versicolor)
Marc de Bont 23 March 2004 5 years ago 46 sec 4.7 -
A bird perched and looking around Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp versicolor)
Ron Hoff 8 December 2007 3 years ago 31 sec 4.3 -
A bird in a tree, in front of a termite mound. Locality Genale Valley, Ethiopia (ssp versicolor)
Josep del Hoyo 9 December 2005 5 years ago 32 sec 4.1 -
A bird perched on a branch Locality Samburu-Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya (ssp erythrocephalus)
Brooke Clibbon 22 December 2002 6 years ago 21 sec 3.7 -
A male eating apple. Locality Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Josep del Hoyo 15 October 2009 1 year ago 42 sec 3.5 -
A male feeding on a feeder. Locality Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Josep del Hoyo 15 October 2009 1 year ago 33 sec 3.5
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Perched Male, Tanzania
Locality Tanzania
John Watson San Antonio TX 8 March 2010 1 year ago 3.9 -
A bird posted a branch.
Locality Samburu-Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2008 3 years ago 3.8 -
Close-up of a bird in a bush
Locality Tanzania
Jim Watt 8 March 2009 2 years ago 3.5 -
Pair of birds on termite mound; ca. 124 km south of Dola-Mena.
Locality Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Hector Ceballos-Lascurain 16 July 2009 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.4 -
A bird calling
Locality Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England, Great Britain
Jonathan Beilby 5 April 2009 2 years ago 3.3 -
A male curious watching me
Locality Tierpark Berlin, Berlin, Germany (ssp erythrocephalus)
Susanne Rintelen 26 July 2009 2 years ago 3.3
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2 birds singing in duet Locality London Zoo, London, England, Great Britain
Stuart Fisher 2 years ago 4 -
Male calling in the zoos tropical house. Other birds heard include starlings. Locality Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England, Great Britain
Jonathan Beilby 5 April 2009 2 years ago 4
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