Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Lybiidae > Trachyphonus > Trachyphonus margaritatusTrachyphonus margaritatus (Yellow-breasted Barbet)The yellow-breasted barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.It is found in Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.98104 EDGE Score: 2.30069 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 55 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 4.4 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 46 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 64 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 39.1 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Endothermic [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 50 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 33 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 33 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 33 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 8 inches (21 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Eritrean coastal desert |
Eritrea |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Ethiopian montane forests |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Ethiopian montane moorlands |
Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Lake Chad flooded savanna |
Nigeria, Chad, Niger |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Ali Sabieh: Assâmo |
Djibouti |
A3 |
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Asmara escarpment |
Eritrea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Central Plateau: Keren |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Chad Basin National Park: Chingurmi: Duguma Sector |
Nigeria |
A1, A3 |
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Dallol Boboye |
Niger |
A3 |
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Danakil lowlands |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Dilia de Lagané |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Dôda |
Djibouti |
A3, A4i |
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Forêt de Day |
Djibouti |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ghinda |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Gulf of Zula |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Hadejia-Nguru wetlands |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Jebel Marra |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Kadda Guéïni: Doumêra |
Djibouti |
A1, A4iv |
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Lac Faguibine |
Mali |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lac Fati |
Mali |
A1, A4i |
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Lac Horo |
Mali |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lac Télé |
Mali |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Chad |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Mabla |
Djibouti |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mareb escarpment |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Massawa coast |
Eritrea |
A1, A3, A4i |
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NNR Aïr: Ténéré |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim |
Chad |
A1, A3 |
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Semenawi Bahri |
Eritrea |
A1, A3 |
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Southern Plateau: Furrus |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Tombouctou |
Mali |
A3 |
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Wad Initi |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Western Plain: Barka river |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Western Plain: Gash: Setit |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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