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[[Image:Red_and_Yellow_Barbet.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Subspecies  ''erythrocephalus''<br />Photo by {{user|obasanmi|obasanmi}} <br/>Near Lake Manyara, Northern [[Tanzania]]]]
 
;[[:Category:Trachyphonus|Trachyphonus]] erythrocephalus
 
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[[Image:Red_and_Yellow_Barbet.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by obasanmi <br/>Photo taken near Lake Manyara in N Tanzania.  Bird pictured is of the nominate race ''erythrocephalus''.]]
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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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9 inches long.  Their upperparts are spotted and streaked with red, yellow, white, and black, and their underparts are yellow.  The tail is black.  They have a bright red or orange beak.  Males have a black cap and black throat patch, and a small crest.
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20–23 cm<br />
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*Upperparts have red, yellow, white and black spots and streaks
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*Yellow underparts
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*Black tail
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*Bright red or orange beak<br />
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'''Male'''
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*Black cap and throat patch
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*Small crest
  
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
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[[Africa]]
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Eastern [[Africa]]: found in [[Sudan]], [[South Sudan]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Somalia]], [[Kenya]], [[Uganda]] and [[Tanzania]].
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
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====Subspecies====
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There are 3 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
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*''T. e. shelleyi''
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:*South-eastern [[Ethiopia]] to north-western and southern [[Somalia]]
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*''T. e. versicolor'':
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:*North-eastern [[Uganda]] to south-eastern [[Sudan]], Ethiopia and northern [[Kenya]]
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*''T. e. erythrocephalus'':
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:*Central Kenya to north-eastern and north-central [[Tanzania]]
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
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Dry bush, woodland and scrub
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Rough areas with rocky outcrops, steep stream sides, open woodland with termite mounds.
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
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It digs its nests in termite mounds. The female lays 2-6 eggs at the back of the tunnel. The male does most of the incubating. Once the chicks hatch, all group members help to feed them.  They catch insects for the chicks, removing the legs and wings from the larger ones and then presenting them to the chicks. After the chicks fledge, they will become helpers for their parents’ next clutch.
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====Breeding====
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They lay their eggs at the back of a termite mount tunnel. The clutch consists of 2-6 eggs which are incubated mostly by the male. All members of the group help to feed the nestlings with insects, with the legs and wings being removed from the larger specimens first. The young will help rear the next generation.
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Their diet includes fruit, seeds, insects, lizards, small birds and eggs.
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====Diet====
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Their diets consists of fruit and their seeds, particularly figs insects, spiders, lizards small birds and their eggs.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug14}}#Avibase
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#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2015)
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#Trek Nature
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{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Trachyphonus+erythrocephalus}}
 
{{GSearch|Trachyphonus+erythrocephalus}}
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{{Video|Red_and_yellow_Barbet}}
  
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Revision as of 21:42, 26 May 2015

Subspecies erythrocephalus
Photo by obasanmi
Near Lake Manyara, Northern Tanzania
Trachyphonus erythrocephalus

Identification

20–23 cm

  • Upperparts have red, yellow, white and black spots and streaks
  • Yellow underparts
  • Black tail
  • Bright red or orange beak

Male

  • Black cap and throat patch
  • Small crest

Distribution

Eastern Africa: found in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies[1]:

  • T. e. shelleyi
  • T. e. versicolor:
  • T. e. erythrocephalus:
  • Central Kenya to north-eastern and north-central Tanzania

Habitat

Rough areas with rocky outcrops, steep stream sides, open woodland with termite mounds.

Behaviour

Breeding

They lay their eggs at the back of a termite mount tunnel. The clutch consists of 2-6 eggs which are incubated mostly by the male. All members of the group help to feed the nestlings with insects, with the legs and wings being removed from the larger specimens first. The young will help rear the next generation.

Diet

Their diets consists of fruit and their seeds, particularly figs insects, spiders, lizards small birds and their eggs.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2015)
  4. Trek Nature

Recommended Citation

External Links


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