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Black-collared Barbet

Lybius torquatus · Family Lybiidae

Lybius torquatus

Family Lybiidae

Order
Piciformes
Family
Lybiidae
GBIF occurrence records
270,645
Countries and territories with records
21
Black-collared Barbet
Diego Delso · Barbudo acollarado (Lybius torquatus), parque nacional Kruger, Sudáfrica, 2018-07-25, DD 27.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · JMK · Lybius_torquatus_torquatus,_2023-05-20_07h07,_57s_tweesang_te_Kamp_Rynoue_naby_Pta,_a.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 270,645 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (85.5%), Zimbabwe (4.2%), Zambia (3.1%), Botswana (2%) and Eswatini (1.4%); together they account for 96.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.58% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Lybius torquatus combines the genus name Lybius with the species epithet torquatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Lybius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Lybius vieilloti, Lybius leucocephalus and Lybius guifsobalito.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 39 species of the family Lybiidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 9.5 times the family average (28,467). The family Lybiidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Lybiidae

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