Red-fronted Barbet

When to see the Red-fronted Barbet

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

Where to see the Red-fronted Barbet

The map shades 5 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 South Sudan.

About the Red-fronted Barbet

The red-fronted barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Easily confused with

Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsutaIts length is 17–18 cm (6.7–7.1 in), and it weighs 43–63 g (1.5–2.2 oz). Black-throated BarbetTricholaema melanocephalaThe black-throated barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. Miombo Pied BarbetTricholaema frontataIts length is approximately 16 cm (6.3 in), and its weight is 24.5–28 g (0.86–0.99 oz).