Black-throated Barbet

First thought was also some kind of Barbet, have to look however in some of my guides to be sure about the species.

This is my only other photograph of this bird but it has the head tilted away, would this be useful for identification?

Hix said:

It's a Barbet of some kind. Best guess (considering what we can see) is Black-throated Barbet.

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Looking at the barbets plate in Collins Field Guide to Birds of Eastern Africa, there are only two barbet species that have the black and white colouration as is shown by this bird, those being spot-flanked barbet and black-throated barbet. Then looking at the second picture (attached above), there are no spots visible so I think it has to be black-throated barbet.

Thank you all for the idea of it being a barbet, I never would have though of it being a barbet at all, I always thought of barbets as larger and quite colourful birds.

LaughingDove said:

I always thought of barbets as larger and quite colourful birds.

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Some of them are, and some are just boring plainly-coloured little things.

black throated barbet