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Black-billed Barbet
Lybius guifsobalito
7.58033, 38.584
Field Notes
Description:
Medium sized barbet, about 15 - 16 cm in length. Mainly black with red crown, face and chest; and black massive 'barbet' type bill. It also sports white-edged wing coverts (diagnostic).
Habitat:
Uncommon resident, endemic to East Africa and thinly distributed. Here, in a savanna and open acacia woodland of Abidjatta-Shalla National Natural Reserve. This beautiful reserve consists of two lakes of the Rift Valley lakes system; and is situated on altitude of 1500m and 2000m. Beside the two lakes, the park is mainly savanna and open acacia woodland, with other thorny shrubs and euphorbias; very rich in birdlife (over 300 species recorded) but not so much in other wildlife.
Notes:
It seems it was another lifer for me and for Project NOAH... the interesting thing is that I just identified these two fellas; thanks to a photo that came out in one of the Facebook forums (African Bird Club). Which means that this picture was sitting in my Non-IDed folder for at least 8 or 9 years (since I scanned it...) and another 7 to 8 years in a carton box fulfilling the same fonction...
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