Black-collared Barbet

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Black-collared Barbet at stays in or beside Goukamma Nature Reserve, Keurbooms River Nature Reserve and Robberg Nature Reserve. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Black-collared Barbet is most recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (35% of records), Mpumalanga (19% of records), Gauteng (17% of records), based on 2,835 iNaturalist observations. 13 places to stay on Spekboom in Western Cape have recorded the Black-collared Barbet on site or nearby.

The Black-collared Barbet is recorded throughout the year, so no month is the wrong month to look for it. For the parks where hosts record it most, these are the best seasons they give. Goukamma Nature Reserve: year-round, warm Oct-Apr; Keurbooms River Nature Reserve: year-round; Robberg Nature Reserve: Sep-Apr, flowers Aug-Oct. In the dry months animals concentrate at water and the grass is short.

The black-collared barbet (Lybius torquatus) is a species of bird in the family Lybiidae. It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa through Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.