Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
Hairy-breasted Barbet, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Kakum, Ghana
May 2011

The Hairy-breasted Barbet is distributed in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone in the west to north-west Tanzania in the east and south to northern Angola and southern Zaire. It is strictly a forest barbet and it usually feeds on fruit (some quite large as in photo 3) and arthropods fairly high up in the trees.

Hairy-breasted Barbet, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image Its call was one of the most common at Kakum and consists of a series of deep hoops.

Hairy-breasted Barbet, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image
Hairy-breasted Barbet, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image
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