Naked-faced Barbet

Gymnobucco calvus

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedFruitForestCavity nestSmall · 55 g

When to see the Naked-faced Barbet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Naked-faced Barbet

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 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 Togo.

About the Naked-faced Barbet

The naked-faced barbet is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).

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Easily confused with

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