Africa’s Barbets
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2012
Well, the answer is that the moniker Red-headed Barbet was first given to the South American species that still bears and thus it had precedence to retain the name. Image taken in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. Its nickname of “Fruit-salad” bears witness to its rather random pattern of red, yellow, black and white.
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