White-eared Barbet
Stactolaema leucotis
Coastal forest fringes. Dark brown with white ear-stripes and underbelly.
Barbets, Tinkerbirds
LC
Not Endemic
Description
Common resident. Identified by pied appearance, prominent white ear-stripe and white belly. The common call is a loud ‘trreee, trrree-trree-trree- trree-trree’, which may be uttered by several birds simultaneously. Usually occurs in noisy, conspicuous groups of two to six in coastal and lowland forest canopies and fringes, riverine forests and moist woodland where fig trees are fruiting.
Quick Facts
Size
18 cm - S
Names
A: Witoorhoutkapper
Z: iNtunjana
Ss: Mankotlo Wa Tsebesweu
G: Weißohr-Bartvogel
Bird Family
Stout-billed, robust and often colourful relatives of the woodpeckers, with loud, characteristic calls. They feed on fruits and insects and excavate nest-holes in trees. The smaller species are called tinkerbirds from the likeness of their calls to the metallic sound of a hammer on an anvil. Immatures are duller than adults.
Distribution
Gallery
Behaviour
Breeding
Habitat
Usually occurs in noisy, conspicuous groups of two to six in coastal and lowland 'forest' canopies and fringes, riverine 'forest's and moist woodland where fig trees are fruiting.
