Western yellow-spotted barbet

The western yellow-spotted barbet (Buccanodon dowsetti) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It is distributed in West Africa west of the Dahomey Gap, where it is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.[1]

Western yellow-spotted barbet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Buccanodon
Species:	B. dowsetti
Binomial name
Buccanodon dowsetti Boesman and Collar, 2019

It was formerly considered conspecific with the eastern yellow-spotted barbet (B. duchaillui), but was split from it on account of their differing songs. The western yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Nigel James Collar and Peter Boesman as "a series of 7–10 accelerating notes similar to a song of hairy-breasted barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta)" (phoneticized as "oop"), while the eastern yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Collar and Boesman as a "characteristic purring (lasting 1–2 seconds), unique among [African] barbets" (phoneticized as "rrurrrrrr…"). These song differences led to the description of B. dowsetti as a distinct species.[1][2]

References

1. Collar, N. J.; Boesman, Peter (June 2019). "Two undescribed species of bird from West Africa". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 139 (2): 147–159. doi:10.25226/bboc.v139i2.2019.a7. ISSN 0007-1595.
2. "Two New Bird Species Discovered in West Africa | Biology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.