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 LC    Cassin's Honeyguide* Id (Atlas):
    Prodotiscus insignis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Cassin's Honeybird, Cassin's Honeyguide, Cassin's Sharp-billed Honeyguide, Cassin's Sharp-billed Honeybird, Green-backed Honeyguide, Green-backed Honeybird, Western Green-backed Honeyguide

Family
Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1856)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

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

Vagrant to Senegal.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Green-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus zambesiae), and has been considered conspecific. The two possibly meet in Angola, where the form referred to as "lathburyi" appears intermediate. Further study is required.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • flavodorsalis Bannerman, 1923   -  Sierra Leone east, probably disjunctly, to south-western Nigeria.
  • insignis (Cassin, 1856)   -  South-eastern Nigeria south to northern Angola, and disjunctly eastern in Zaire to southern Sudan and western Kenya.



References
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