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Crested Barbet
Kuifkophoutkapper · Trachyphonus vaillantii
A gaudy, speckled barbet with a small crest, one of the most colourful garden birds in the rest camps. Its long mechanical trill carries far across the bush. It feeds on fruit and insects, raids other birds' nests, and roosts and breeds in tree holes.
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Shaggy crest and speckled yellow, red and black plumage with a black collar; trilling alarm-clock call.
Listen for its call
A long, machine-like trill — locals call it the "alarm-clock bird".
Where to see it in Kruger
Common in rest-camp gardens and woodland right across Kruger.
Did you know
Its long buzzing trill sounds exactly like an old wind-up alarm clock going off.
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