The Red Head Black Collared Barbet Bird

The Black Collared Red Head Barbet

Hello there, TrudyVan here

I love the garden birds that visit my garden. If you want birds to visit your garden you need to have drinking water availiable at all times and it is also a good idea to put out fruits and seeds for them to eat. The Black Collered Barbets that we have in our garden eat our grapes right off the vine.

They are always in a group of about 6 to 8. Their latin name: Lybius torquatus
Their colouring:
Head and throat are red with a black ring or collar, red eyes with a back bill. Black legs and it's back is brown.

The black collared barbets Habitat
It is found in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa. The black collared barbet loves open grasslands, gardens, forests, trees, open farmlands with trees.

The Barbets Behaviour
They are always in pairs and are monogamous and will only find another partner when the one dies. They love perching and live, feed and roost in groups.

Their Feeding Habits
They love fruits and berries, as well as insects such as flies, locusts, ants, bees, wasps

Build
They have a height of about 20cm.

I love nature and birds in particular. I am sure you will enjoy them as much as I do.

Kindest regards
TrudyVan

Breeding
Both male and female black collared barbets work to make a hole in a tree for their nest and often use the same hole/nest repeatedly over a couple of years, if there is enough water and food.
The barbets lay their eggs between September to February. They lay on average between 2 to 5 white in colour eggs at a time. Both male and female barbet sit on the eggs for about 35 days to incubate.
They are known to be good providers to their young.

Other known names for the black collared barbet:
Rooikophoutkapper
Red woodpecker
Woodpeckers
Black-collared Barbet
red headed barbets
red and black head barbets