Re: Help me identify this odd bird, please!

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Posted by Jim Wolynetz on 19:44:18 06/22/04

In Reply to: Re: Help me identify this odd bird, please! posted by frank

: : Description: built like a kingfisher, but has a yellow breast, with a fiery red head with white "ears" and it's back and tail feathers appear to be black with white polka dots. It's song is a ceaseless flute-like tee-tyew, tee-tyew, tee-tyew with the stress on the second half. Have never seen or heard this bird before and cannot find it in any book. Can anyone out there identify it? Thanks.

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: It could be a Red and Yellow Barbet (trachyphonus erythrocephalus), from semi-arid scrublands of east Africa. Look in the Collins field guide to Birds of East Africa.

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Thank you so much, Frank! That's exactly what it is...a Red and Yellow African Barbet. I searched for a photo online and it's an exact match.

So, what's up with him? Do you think he most likely was released or escaped? Would he normally be the type of bird a person would've kept as a pet? Could he have flown here??

Thanks again.

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Comments:	: : : Description: built like a kingfisher, but has a yellow breast, with a fiery red head with white "ears" and it's back and tail feathers appear to be black with white polka dots. It's song is a ceaseless flute-like tee-tyew, tee-tyew, tee-tyew with the stress on the second half. Have never seen or heard this bird before and cannot find it in any book. Can anyone out there identify it? Thanks. : : : : : It could be a Red and Yellow Barbet (trachyphonus erythrocephalus), from semi-arid scrublands of east Africa. Look in the Collins field guide to Birds of East Africa. : : : : Thank you so much, Frank! That's exactly what it is...a Red and Yellow African Barbet. I searched for a photo online and it's an exact match. : : So, what's up with him? Do you think he most likely was released or escaped? Would he normally be the type of bird a person would've kept as a pet? Could he have flown here?? : : Thanks again.
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