Yellow-rumped Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-rumped Honeyguide, Orange-rumped Honeyguide, Himalayan Honeyguide, Indian Honeyguide

Family
Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)

Size
15 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Blyth, 1842

Habitat
Rocky gorges and valleys with broadleaved or coniferous forest. From 1,450 - 3,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Bhutan (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Pakistan (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and decreasing.

Status NT
Forest loss, over-exploitation of bees' nests for honey by human populations are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

Yellow-rumped Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus) [XC891543]
by Lars Lachmann from Thungri, India (song)

Yellow-rumped Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus) [XC770252]
by Lars Lachmann from Hongmucun, Baoshan, Yunnan, China (call)

Subspecies
Closest relatives are probably Malay Honeyguide (Indicator archipelagicus) and Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator). Probably derived from early Asian invasion of Indicator from Africa, and originating from same ancestral stock that gave rise to Malay Honeyguide (Indicator archipelagicus) and both have bright yellow in plumage and short outer rectrix, a combination of features shared only with African Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator). Birds from north-eastern Assam, Nagaland and Manipur to northern Myanmar, described as subspecies fulvus, now considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

radcliffi Hume, 1870 - North-eastern Pakistan (presumed extinct), and Himalayan slopes of north-western India, possibly to western Nepal.
xanthonotus Blyth, 1842 - Nepal east to north-eastern India, south-eastern Tibet and northern Myanmar.
fulvus Ripley, 1951 - Nepal to north-eastern India, south-eastern Tibet and northern Myanmar.

References
See References.

Files:

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