Common name: Vieillot's Barbet

Scientific name: Lybius vieilloti

Local name: -

Approximate measurements:
Mass (grams):
Length (cm):
Wing length (mm): 77-80
Larger sex: No difference

Distribution: Mauritania, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethopia, Benin, Zaire

Status: Resident, often common.

Habitat: Woodland, open woodland, cultivated land with scattered trees.

General habits: Travels distances to reach fruiting trees. Roosts in tree cavity, as many as six together. Displays and calls from lone dead trees.

Feeding habits: Forages in live and dead trees and on the ground. Diet of caterpillars, termintes, ants, figs and fruits.

Breeding habits: Nests in trees in open country.
Egg laying: April - May
Nest: Excavated by one or both adults (perhaps also others of the group) at 1-8m in dead or branch of live tree, often on underside. Also in live soft trees.
Eggs: 2-3 white eggs
Incubation: -
Young: -