๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Crested Barbet live?

Trachyphonus vaillantii has 241,237 records in 18 countries and territories, from 1873 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Crested Barbet
Crested Barbet โ€” Jenny Varley / CC BY-SA 2.0 ยท source
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
South Africa 216,077
Zimbabwe 9,357
Botswana 6,803
Eswatini 2,194
Zambia 2,142
Namibia 1,824
Uganda 1,353
Tanzania 520
Rwanda 297
Mozambique 238
Malawi 209
Lesotho 132
DR Congo 76
Angola 10
Kenya 2
Burundi 1
Greece 1
United States 1

Related animals

Others in the family Lybiidae.

Black-collared Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
269,740 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
Vieillot's Barbet
Vieillot's Barbet
11,937 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.