Yellow-rumped tinkerbird

Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
	Adult bird in the Kruger N. P.
	Call recorded in Saiwa Swamp, Kenya
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Pogoniulus
Species:	P. bilineatus
Binomial name
	Pogoniulus bilineatus; (Sundevall, 1850)
Synonyms
	Barbatula bilineata;

The yellow-rumped tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae (African barbets), which is native to the moist tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa.

Relationships[]

It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).

Subspecies[]

Pogoniulus bilineatus includes the following subspecies:^[2]

P. b. leucolaimus - (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1851)
P. b. poensis - (Alexander, 1908)
P. b. mfumbiri - (Ogilvie-Grant, 1907)
P. b. jacksoni - (Sharp, 1897)
P. b. fischeri - (Reichenow, 1880)
P. b. bilineatus - (Sundevall, 1850)

Range[]

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, RCongo, DRCongo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Gallery[]

in Uganda
Illustration by J.G. Keulemans

References[]

^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pogoniulus bilineatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681769A92918986. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681769A92918986.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

External links[]

(Yellow-rumped tinkerbird = ) Golden-rumped tinker barbet - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

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[iucn_status_13_November_2021-1] BirdLife International (2016). "Pogoniulus bilineatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681769A92918986. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681769A92918986.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.

[2] Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

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