White-headed Barbet

Lybius leucocephalus - Barbican à tête blanche

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Piciformes

  • Family
    :

    Lybiidés

  • Genus
    :

    Lybius

  • Species
    :

    leucocephalus

Descriptor

de Filippi, 1853

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 20 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 45 à 81 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Barbican à tête blanche
adult
Barbican à tête blanche
adult

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,

Voice song and cries

Barbican à tête blanche
adult

Habitat

Barbican à tête blanche
adult

Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Rural Gardens

Geographic range

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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