White-headed Barbet
Lybius leucocephalus - Barbican à tête blanche
Systematics
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Order:
Piciformes
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Family:
Lybiidés
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Genus:
Lybius
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Species:
leucocephalus
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 20 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 45 à 81 g
Geographic range
Identification
White-headed Barbet (Lybius leucocephalus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.
Subspecific information 6 subspecies
- Lybius leucocephalus leucocephalus (s Sudan and ne DRCongo to wc Kenya and nw Tanzania)
- Lybius leucocephalus adamauae (n Nigeria to nw DRCongo)
- Lybius leucocephalus senex (c and sc Kenya)
- Lybius leucocephalus albicauda (sw Kenya and n Tanzania)
- Lybius leucocephalus lynesi (c Tanzania)
- Lybius leucocephalus leucogaster (sw Angola)
Foreign names
- Barbican à tête blanche,
- Barbudo cabeciblanco,
- barbaças-de-cabeça-branca,
- Weißkopf-Bartvogel,
- Witkopbaardvogel,
- Barbetto testabianca,
- vithuvad barbett,
- Hvithodeskjeggfugl,
- fuzáň bielohlavý,
- vousák bělohlavý,
- Hvidhovedet Tandskægfugl,
- valkopääseppä,
- barbut capblanc,
- wąsal białogłowy,
- Белоголовая либия,
- シロガシラゴシキドリ,
- 白头拟啄木鸟,
- 白頭擬啄木,
Habitat
Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Rural Gardens
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
- Birds of East Africa, C.A.W. Guggisberg
- Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides, Lester Short and Jennifer Horne
- Vol. 7 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliott-Jordi Sargatal
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
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