Rufous-necked Wryneck © flickr.com

Vagrant to Lesotho, Sudan, Zimbabwe.

Proposed subspecies cosensi (Kenya, Tanzania) now considered synonymous with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• aequatorialis Rüppell, 1842   -  Ethiopia.
• pulchricollis Hartlaub, 1884   -  South-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon to north-western Zaire, southern Sudan and north-western Uganda.
• ruficollis Wagler, 1830   -  South-eastern Gabon to south-western and eastern Uganda, south-western Kenya and extreme northern Tanzania, and south to northern and eastern Angola (south to Cuanza Norte and Malanje, east to Moxico), north-western Zambia and eastern South Africa.

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