Red-and-yellow Barbet

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Red-and-yellow Barbet

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Capitonidae
Genus: Trachyphonus
Species: T. erythrocephalus
Binomial name
Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
Cabanis, 1878

The Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus) is a barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds with a world-wide tropical distribution. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.

This bird is found in eastern Africa, from Sudan in the north to Tanzania in the south.