Black-throated barbet

Black-throated barbet
Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891
Calls recorded in southwest Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Piciformes
Family:Lybiidae
Genus:Tricholaema
Species: T. melanocephala
Binomial name
Tricholaema melanocephala
(Cretzschmar, 1826)
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.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Tricholaema melanocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.


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