Speckled Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus scolopaceus)

Other Names (World)
Speckled Tinkerbird, Spectacled Tinkerbird, Spectacled Tinkerbarbet

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

Speckled Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus) [XC267373]
by Martin St-Michel from northern section along road, Kibale Forest, W Uganda, Uganda (song)

Speckled Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus) [XC285555]
by Martin St-Michel from For\u00eat d'Ebogo, Nyong-et-So, Cameroon (song)

Subspecies
No close relatives. Forms described as aloysii from Kenya and Uganda and flavior from northern Angola considered synonyms of flavisquamatus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

scolopaceus (Bonaparte, 1850) - Sierra Leone and south-eastern Guinea east to southern Nigeria.
stellatus (Jardine & Fraser, 1852) - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).
flavisquamatus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1855) - Southern Cameroon east to Uganda, south to northern Angola and southern Zaire.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Speckled Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus scolopaceus) - 10 files

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