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 LC    Wahlberg's Honeyguide* Id (Atlas):
    Prodotiscus regulus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Brown-backed Honeybird, Wahlberg's Honeyguide, Wahlberg's Honeybird, Sharp-billed Honeyguide, Sharp-billed Honeybird, Brown-backed Honeyguide

Family
Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sundevall, 1850

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Somalia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

 
Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus) [XC292035]
     by id from Dirkiesdorp Road, Mpumalanga, South Africa (call)

 
Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus) [XC854452]
     by Bram Piot from North Swaka Forest Reserve, Mkushi, Central Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
No very close relatives. Forms named as peasei and adustoides are synonyms of nominate; caurinus synonymous with camerunensis.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • camerunensis Reichenow, 1921   -  Disjunctly from Guinea east to south-eastern Nigeria, thence east to northern Cameroon and western Central African Republic.
  • regulus Sundevall, 1850   -  East-central Sudan and south-western Ethiopia southern (to east of forest) to southern Zaire, Angola and north-eastern Namibia, east to Indian Ocean coast and south to eastern Cape Province; recorded once in north-western Somalia.



References
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Files:
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