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 LC    Spotted Honeyguide* Id (Atlas):
    Indicator maculatus

Description (10)
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Family
Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)

Size
16.50 - 17.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray, 1847

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,130 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mali.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Spotted Honeyguide (Indicator maculatus) [XC624793]
     by Peter Boesman from Djomo, Bayanga, Sangha-Mbare, Central African Republic (call)

 
Spotted Honeyguide (Indicator maculatus) [XC719219]
     by id from Abrafo Forest, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Scaly-throated Honeyguide (Indicator variegatus), marginally overlapping in south-western Sudan and western Uganda. Proposed subspecies feae synonymous with nominate maculatus; theresae with stictithorax. Eastern subspecies often listed as "stictothorax" but original spelling, stictithorax, must stand.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • maculatus Gray, 1847   -  Gambia to Nigeria.
  • stictithorax Reichenow, 1877   -  Southern Cameroon east to south-western Sudan, south to northern Angola (Cabinda), southern and eastern Zaire and south-western Uganda.



References
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Files:
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