Naked-faced barbet

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).

Naked-faced barbet
male (left) and female (right)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Gymnobucco
Species:	G. calvus
Binomial name
Gymnobucco calvus (Lafresnaye, 1841)
Subspecies[2]
G. c. calvus - (Lafresnaye, 1841) G. c. congicus - Chapin, 1932 G. c. vernayi - Boulton, 1931

Naked-faced Barbed

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.