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Lybius dubius

Photo by Steve G
Senegambia Hotel grounds, Kololi, The Gambia, March 2005

[edit] Identification

26 cm

• Black crown, back, tail and breast band
• Red throat and bell
• Yellow eye patch
• White rump
• Very thick and yellow large bill, well developed clump of bristles at the base
  

Sexes are similar

[edit] Distribution

West Africa: found in western Sahel (northern Senegambia to north-western Central African Republic)

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Woodland, thickets and orchards in dry areas, and gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes fruit. The young are fed insects.

[edit] Breeding

It nests in a tree hole which it excavates using its large bill. Incubation of the 2 white eggs lasts for 15 days. The young fledge after 40 days.

[edit] Vocalisation

The call is a growling scrawk.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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