White-eared barbet

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White-eared barbet
White-eared Barbet RWD.jpg
In South Africa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Stactolaema
Species:
S. leucotis
Binomial name
Stactolaema leucotis
(Sundevall, 1850)
Subspecies [2]
  • S. l. kilimensis - (Shelley, 1889)
  • S. l. leucogrammica - (Reichenow, 1915)
  • S. l. leucotis - (Sundevall, 1850)

The white-eared barbet (Stactolaema leucotis) is a species of bird in the family Lybiidae (African barbets). It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Stactolaema leucotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.