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When to see the Black-breasted Barbet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-breasted Barbet
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Sudan.
About the Black-breasted Barbet
The black-breasted barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, and the extreme northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo and northern Uganda.
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Easily confused with
Black-backed BarbetPogonornis minorThe white-faced barbet or black-backed barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.
Bearded BarbetPogonornis dubiusThis is a conspicuous, large barbet at 26 centimetres (10 in) in overall length.
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