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.
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).
Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) [XC510361]
by Frank Lambert from Muheza outskirts, Tanga, Tanzania (song)
Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) [XC429739]
by Frank Lambert from Kilosa, Morogoro Region, Tanzania (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.