Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet

Trachylaemus purpuratus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1851)

Lybiidae — African Barbets

Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Trachylaemus purpuratus, is an African barbet in the Lybiidae family, breeding from south-east Nigeria to western Kenya. It occurs across a broad belt of central and eastern Africa, including Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Angola. It was once treated as the same species as the western yellow-billed barbet. Two subspecies are recognised, with one in the western part of the range and the other extending through South Sudan and north-east DR Congo to west Kenya.

Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae — African Barbets
Breeding range: Africa: se Nigeria to w Kenya