Red-throated Wryneck (Jynx ruficollis) [XC786578]
by Rory Nefdt from Bowling Green, Muthaiga Country Club, Muthaiga, Nairobi County, Kenya (call)
Red-throated Wryneck (Jynx ruficollis) [XC651160]
by Nature sounds by Simply Birding from Lesedi Local Municipality (near Diepkloof), Sedibeng, Gauteng, South Africa (duet)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla). Cameroon birds formerly separated as subspecies thorbeckei on basis of more completely barred throat, but this feature occurs also in eastern populations of pulchricollis. Birds from northern Angola sometimes separated as subspecies pectoralis, but indistinguishable from nominate
Proposed subspecies cosensi (Kenya, Tanzania) now considered synonymous with nominate.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
aequatorialis Rüppell, 1842 - Ethiopia.
pulchricollis Hartlaub, 1884 - South-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon to north-western Zaire, southern Sudan and north-western Uganda.
ruficollis Wagler, 1830 - South-eastern Gabon to south-western and eastern Uganda, south-western Kenya and extreme northern Tanzania, and south to northern and eastern Angola (south to Cuanza Norte and Malanje, east to Moxico), north-western Zambia and eastern South Africa.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet