Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) [XC758554]
by Dawie de Swardt from Masuku Lodge, Choma, Southern, Zambia (song)
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) [XC252075]
by Hans Matheve from Ishasha, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (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.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet