Just by a waterhole, quite close to the hotel we stayed at in Langano, to my great joy I discovered this Red-fronted barbet. It is a species that is relatively unusual throughout the range, which extends as an S-shaped belt, diagonally through central Ethiopia, down to southern Sudan, western Kenya and central Tanzania. The best chance to see it is probably right here, where the belt of extension is as narrowest. Barbets are classified as "Piciformes", but the barbets' bills look very different, compared to the woodpeckers'. This barbette is quite large, 16-17 cm, and subsists on seeds, fruits and tender plant parts, alongside the insect diet, which includes ants and termites. Its closest relatives seem to be toucans and American barbettes. I was particularly pleased that I got some profile pictures because they clearly show the special features of this barbette: the red forehead, the yellow superciliary and the gray beak with a clear notch in the tomia (the bill's cutting surfaces).