Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

About the Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

The yellow-fronted tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) is a small bird in the family Lybiidae formerly known as yellow-fronted tinker barbet. It is sometimes considered conspecific with its southern counterpart, the red-fronted tinkerbird, Pogoniulus pusillus. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill and a world-wide tropical distribution.

The subspecies vary with respect to size and colour tone of the plumage streaks. They include: P. c. chrysoconus (Temminck, 1832) P. c. extoni Layard, 1871 — southern Africa P. c. xanthostictus (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) If P. c. extoni is restricted to the southernmost population occurring in southeastern Botswana, northern South Africa and Eswatini, the following two subspecies are also recognized:

P. c. rhodesiae Grant, 1915 — Angola, Zambia, northeastern Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe P. c. dryas Clancey & Lawson, 1961 — eastern to northern Mozambique and northwards The yellow-fronted tinkerbird is a widespread and frequently common resident breeder in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. It is associated with mesic, open to closed broadleaved or mixed woodlands and... Wikipedia →