African Green-Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex)

Other Names (World)
Eastern Green Tinkerbird, African Green-Tinkerbird, Green Tinkerbird(!), Green Tinkerbarbet(!), African Green Tinkerbird, African Green Tinkerbarbet

Family
Lybiidae (African Barbets)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Fischer & Reichenow, 1884)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,525 m.

Range (Guide)

Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania [United Republic of].

South-eastern Kenya (southern from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest) to north-eastern Tanzania, and southern disjunctly to south-eastern Malawi and southern Mozambique (Sul do Save); also Zanzibar.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (11)...)

Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) [XC91605]
by Charles Davies from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (northern part), Kenya (song)

Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) [XC154781]
by Niall Perrins from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Moustached Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus leucomystax) and Western Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus coryphaea), all having in past been placed in separate genus Viridibucco. Birds of southern Malawi and Mozambique sometimes separated as subspecies hylodytes.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for African Green-Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) - 10 files

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