Crested Barbet
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Crested Barbet

Trachyphonus vaillantii

Overview

Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park are among twelve atlas places where the Crested Barbet is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, though it is also recorded in nine countries total including Zambia and Namibia. The atlas holds about 180,000 records of this bird, and the map shows where these sightings concentrate.

Records of Trachyphonus vaillantii span the entire year, appearing in the data for every month.

Records
179,534
Countries
9
Atlas places
12
Months with records
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Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.

Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Crested Barbet as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 168074 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 6558 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Botswana
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2189 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Uganda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1016 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Eswatini
    25 km zone · high confidence · 648 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 576 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 473 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Crested Barbet