🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Yellow-breasted Barbet live?

Trachyphonus margaritatus has 1,289 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1868 to 2026. Most records come from Ethiopia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPiciformesLybiidaeTrachyphonus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Ethiopia 933
Djibouti 179
Eritrea 37
Sudan 35
Niger 29
Somalia 26
Nigeria 23
Chad 20
Mali 5
United States 1
South Africa 1

Related animals

Others in the family Lybiidae.

Black-collared Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
269,740 records
Crested Barbet
Crested Barbet
241,237 records
Pied Barbet
Pied Barbet
142,648 records
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
79,903 records
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
78,811 records
D'Arnaud's Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet
23,473 records
Speckled Tinkerbird
Speckled Tinkerbird
13,998 records
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
12,295 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.