Common name: Yellow-breasted Barbet

Scientific name: Trachyphonus margaritatus

Local name: -

Approximate measurements:
Mass (grams): 47
Length (cm):
Wing length (mm): 90
Larger sex: No difference

Distribution: Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Status: Locally common resident.

Habitat: Watercourses in sparsely wooded dry grassland, thorn bush and desert edge (Sahel).

General habits: Active and noisy with heavy undulating flight. Usually in pairs or groups of 3 - 4.

Feeding habits: Forages on the ground, in bushes and trees along streambeds. Food consists of dryland fruits, berries, figs, locusts, beetles and other insects, and perhaps vertebrates such as birds as well.

Breeding habits: Nests in earth walls of cliff or streambed or the walls of buildings or wells.
Egg laying: May to August
Nest: The nest is a tunnel excavated into the earth usually less than 2m above the ground.
Eggs: 4 - 6
Incubation:
Young: