Gymnobucco calvus
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae (the African barbets). It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).
It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakum National Park | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Naked-faced Barbet sighting in Kakum National Park on a given day, based on 186 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 45th most-seen of the 250 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Naked-faced Barbet in Kakum National Park on a given day, against about 20% in December, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Naked-faced Barbet sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kakum National Park, in our data
Kakum National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Naked-faced Barbet sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Naked-faced Barbet is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakum National Park (186 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.
