Black-collared Barbet
My sighting of a Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus in the town of Grootfontein, northern Namibia, was published in Lanioturdus 55(4) 2022. I first heard this well-known call from the Kavango Regions in our neighborhood on 25 September 2022 at 08h30. When I had confirmed the call as being that of this bird, I tried to find it by following the call later in the day at 16h40, again on 29 September. The bird was moving between various gardens in our neighborhood. I made another effort one afternoon the following month on 4 October, this time trying to lure the bird into sight by calling it out. I concentrated on the area where I had heard it, where some Ficus trees Ficus thoninngii and Ficus sycomore, the latter bearing fruit, occurred. After a while I found the bird perched, not in a Ficus, but in a Sweet-thorn bush Vachellia (Acacia) karroo, opposite the graveled road. I made sure of the ID and left the scene and the bird.
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