Black-throated barbet

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Black-throated barbet
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Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891
Calls recorded in southwest Kenya
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Tricholaema
Species:
T. melanocephala
Binomial name
Tricholaema melanocephala
(Cretzschmar, 1829)
Subspecies [2]
  • T. m. melanocephala – (Cretzschmar, 1829)
  • T. m. blandi – Lort Phillips, 1897
  • T. m. stigmatothorax – Cabanis, 1878
  • T. m. flavibuccalis – Reichenow, 1893
Synonyms
  • Tricholaema stigmatothorax

The black-throated barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its distribution has moved northward. [3]

Seen at Lake Bogoria - Kenya Black-throated Barbet.jpg
Seen at Lake Bogoria – Kenya

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References

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