Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus)

Other Names (World)
Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Red-fronted Tinkerbarbet

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Dumont, 1816)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], 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 (58)...)

Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus) [XC280592]
by Peter Boesman from Mkhuze Game Reserve, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus) [XC531949]
by isaac kilusu from Borena, Oromia, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus), which it meets marginally in Ethiopia and South Africa with no apparent hybridization. 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). Populations to eastern and south of L Victoria formerly separated as subspecies eupterus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

uropygialis (Heuglin, 1862) - Eritrea and northern and central Ethiopia to northern Somalia.
affinis (Reichenow, 1879) - South-eastern Sudan, south-eastern Ethiopia and southern Somalia south to south-eastern Tanzania.
pusillus (Dumont, 1816) - Southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus) - 10 files

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