Yellow-billed Barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus)
About the Yellow-billed Barbet
The eastern yellow-billed barbet (Trachylaemus purpuratus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the western yellow-billed barbet. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and western Kenya. Two subspecies are recognised: T. p. purpuratus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1851) – southeast Nigeria to Central African Republic, north, central DR Congo and northwest Angola T. p. elgonensis Sharpe, 1891 – south Sudan and northeast DR Congo to west Kenya.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 60 recordings for this species: 9 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- D'Arnaud's BarbetTrachyphonus darnaudiirecording
- Usambiro BarbetTrachyphonus usambirorecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.