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 ventral view of a perched bird in a tree. Locality Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania (ssp erythrocephalus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 15 February 2012 37 weeks ago 15 sec 4.6 -
A male on the nest hole Locality Nanyangacor, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan (ssp versicolor)
Marc de Bont 23 March 2004 6 years ago 46 sec 4.6 -
A bird perched and looking around Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp versicolor)
Ron Hoff 8 December 2007 5 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 6 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 7 years ago 21 sec 3.8 -
A frontal view of a perched bird. Locality Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania (ssp erythrocephalus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 15 February 2012 37 weeks ago 24 sec 3.7
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Perched male
Locality Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (ssp erythrocephalus)
hyilmaz 6 September 2012 34 weeks ago 4.6 -
Red-and-yellow Barbet in a bush
Locality Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (ssp erythrocephalus)
Hans-Juergen Kuehnel 3 January 2012 1 year ago 4 -
Perched Male, Tanzania
Locality Tanzania (ssp erythrocephalus)
John Watson San Antonio TX 8 March 2010 2 years ago 3.9 -
Red and Yellow Barbet
Locality Nanyuki, Kenya
NCairns 1 July 2011 1 year ago 3.9 -
A bird posted a branch.
Locality Samburu-Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2008 4 years ago 3.8 -
Pair of birds on termite mound; ca. 124 km south of Dola-Mena.
Locality Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Hector Ceballos-Lascurain 16 July 2009 1 year ago 3.8
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2 birds singing in duet Locality London Zoo, London, England, Great Britain
Stuart Fisher 3 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 3 years ago 4
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