Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Yellow-fronted Barbet(!), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbarbet

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1832)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 (98)...)

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) [XC861407]
by Marc Anderson from Kataba1 (near Diannah), Bignona, R\u00e9gion de Ziguinchor, Senegal (song)

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) [XC339373]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Jellis' Farm (Lazy J Ranch), Lusaka, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus), overlapping very narrowly in Ethiopia and eastern South Africa and apparently not hybridizing. Both also closely related to Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus) and Yellow-throated Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus subsulphureus), and perhaps fairly close to Red-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus atroflavus).

Proposed subspecies schubotzi (west-central Niger to south-western Sudan), zedlitzi (eastern Sudan) and centralis (north-eastern Zaire and Uganda) regarded as synonyms of chrysoconus; schoanus (central Ethiopia) included in xanthostictus; and rhodesiae (south-western Zaire to Malawi) and mayri (southern Zaire to north-eastern Angola) in extoni.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

chrysoconus (Temminck, 1832) - South-western Mauritania and Senegal east to north-western Ethiopia, south to northern edge of forest in central Cameroon, northern and north-eastern Zaire, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
xanthostictus (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) - Highlands of central and southern Ethiopia.
extoni (Layard, EL, 1871) - Angola and southern Zaire east to southern Tanzania, south to north-central Namibia, northern Botswana, Transvaal and southern Mozambique.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) - 10 files

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