Barbets (Capitonidae)
Yellow-breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) - HBW 7, p. 176
French: Barbican perlé
German: Perlenbartvogel
Spanish: Barbudo Perlado
Taxonomy: Bucco margaritatus Cretzschmar, 1826, Sennar, east-central Sudan.
Forms a superspecies with T. erythrocephalus, and the two are sometimes considered conspecific; both are related rather closely to T. darnaudii, less so to T. vaillantii. Validity of subdivision into races perhaps questionable; also, NE Sudan birds, described as race kingi, and those from C Sudan, as berberensis, both considered indistinguishable from nominate. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- margaritatus (Cretzschmar, 1826) - E Mauritania E to Chad, C & NE Sudan, N Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
- somalicus Zedlitz, 1910 - E Ethiopia and Djibouti to N Somalia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched on a thorny fence and flying away. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia (ssp somalicus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 22 sec 4.2 -
A dorsal view of a bird looking around Locality Bilen Lodge, Awash National Park, Ethiopia (ssp somalicus)
Ron Hoff 14 December 2007 5 years ago 31 sec 3.7 -
A bird ejecting a pellet. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia (ssp somalicus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 23 sec 3.6
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red and yellow bird
Locality Sudan
mohammmmad alamin khogaly... 25 weeks ago 4.4 -
Foraging on the ground.
Locality Bilen Lodge, Awash National Park, Ethiopia (ssp margaritatus)
David Beadle 10 February 2009 18 weeks ago 3.8 -
haya
Locality Sudan
mohammmmad alamin khogaly... 22 weeks ago 3.8 -
haya
Locality Sudan
mohammmmad alamin khogaly... 22 weeks ago 3.6 -
A bird on a tree
Locality El Mas‘udiya, Blue Nile State, Sudan
hythumm 1 June 2012 50 weeks ago 3.5 -
k
Locality Sudan
Mohamed Ismael 10 weeks ago 3
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