Lybius minor
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The white-faced barbet or black-backed barbet (Pogonornis minor) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Gabon, Angola, Zambia, Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat it is normally found in is riverine woodland and forest edges.
The common name 'white-faced barbet' recently applied to the species Pogonornis macclounii, which has since been relegated to a subspecies of Pogonornis minor. Wikipedia →
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Zambia · 2021
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kafue National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Backed Barbet sighting in Kafue National Park on a given day, based on 109 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 93rd most-seen of the 338 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and August
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Backed Barbet in Kafue National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February and November–December, the lowest months. Those are among Kafue National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 290 mm in January.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Backed Barbet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kafue National Park, in our data
Kafue National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-Backed Barbet sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Backed Barbet is recorded against all the birds logged in Kafue National Park (109 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
