Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestCavity nestMedium · 76 g

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 1 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Rafael Würtemberger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Rafael Würtemberger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Doug Macaulay, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet

Regular range

The map shades 13 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Uganda Kenya Congo - Kinshasa Nigeria Cameroon Angola Gabon Equatorial Guinea Congo - Brazzaville Liberia Central African Republic Côte d’Ivoire Ghana

About the Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet

The eastern yellow-billed barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the western yellow-billed barbet.

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Easily confused with

Western Yellow-billed BarbetTrachylaemus goffiniiThe western yellow-billed barbet is a species of bird in the African barbet family Lybiidae that is found from Sierra Leone to southwest Nigeria in West Africa.

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