Hairy-breasted Barbet

Tricholaema hirsuta - Barbican hérissé

Barbican hérissé
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Piciformes

  • Family
    :

    Lybiidés

  • Genus
    :

    Tricholaema

  • Species
    :

    hirsuta

Descriptor

Swainson, 1821

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 18 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 43 à 63 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Barbican hérissé
adult
Barbican hérissé

Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.

Subspecific information 4 subspecies

  • Tricholaema hirsuta hirsuta (Sierra Leone to sc Nigeria)
  • Tricholaema hirsuta flavipunctata (s Nigeria to c Gabon)
  • Tricholaema hirsuta angolensis (s Gabon to n Angola)
  • Tricholaema hirsuta ansorgii (e Cameroon and e DRCongo to w Kenya and nw Tanzania)

Foreign names

  • Barbican hérissé,
  • Barbudo hirsuto,
  • barbaças-hirsuto,
  • Fleckenbartvogel,
  • Geelparelbaardvogel,
  • Barbetto pettovilloso,
  • hårbröstad barbett,
  • Hårbrystskjeggfugl,
  • fuzáň bodkovaný,
  • vousák vlasatý,
  • Sortkindet Skægfugl,
  • täpläseppä,
  • barbut hirsut,
  • kosmatek,
  • Пятнистая либия,
  • キボシコゴシキドリ,
  • 丝胸拟啄木鸟,
  • 鬚胸擬啄木,

Voice song and cries

Barbican hérissé

Habitat

Barbican hérissé
♂ adult

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Geographic range

Distribution

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 05-04-2008
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