Green-backed Honeyguide (Prodotiscus zambesiae)

Other Names (World)
Green-backed Honeybird, Green-backed Honeyguide, Eastern Green-backed Honeyguide, Slender-billed Honeyguide, Slender-billed Honeybird, Eastern Honeyguide, Eastern Honeybird

Family
Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1894

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

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

Green-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus zambesiae) [XC289350]
by Carl Beel from Kapenguria Road, Lower Kabete, Nairobi, Kenya (call, flight call)

Green-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus zambesiae) [XC306016]
by Derek Solomon from Harenna Forest, Bale Mnts, Ethiopia (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Cassin's Honeybird (Prodotiscus insignis), with which has been considered conspecific. The two may meet in Angola, where some birds possibly intermediate, including unassignable form known as "lathburyi". Further study is required. Northern Tanzanian birds formerly separated as subspecies reichenowi, but this is now considered a synonym of ellenbecki.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

ellenbecki Erlanger, 1901 - Southern Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania.
zambesiae Shelley, 1894 - Central Angola, southern Zaire and southern Tanzania, south to north-eastern Namibia, southern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique.
lathburyi Hall, BP, 1958 - West-central Angola.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Green-backed Honeyguide (Prodotiscus zambesiae) - 10 files

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