Tinkerbird

The tinkerbirds or tinker barbets are the genus Pogoniulus of the Lybiidae, the African barbet family of near passerines, which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. Tinkerbirds are widely distributed in tropical Africa.

Tinkerbirds
Western tinkerbird (Pogoniulus coryphaea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Pogoniulus
Lafresnaye, 1842
Species

Pogoniulus atroflavus
Pogoniulus bilineatus
Pogoniulus chrysoconus
Pogoniulus coryphaea
Pogoniulus leucomystax
Pogoniulus makawai
Pogoniulus pusillus
Pogoniulus scolopaceus
Pogoniulus simplex
Pogoniulus subsulphureus

List of species in taxonomic order

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Speckled tinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceusAngola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.
Western tinkerbirdPogoniulus coryphaeaAngola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Moustached tinkerbirdPogoniulus leucomystaxKenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Green tinkerbirdPogoniulus simplexKenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
Red-rumped tinkerbirdPogoniulus atroflavusAngola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Yellow-throated tinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureusAngola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Yellow-rumped tinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatusAngola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 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.
White-chested tinkerbirdPogoniulus makawaiZambia
Yellow-fronted tinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconusAfrica south of the Sahara Desert
Red-fronted tinkerbirdPogoniulus pusillussouthern Sudan and Ethiopia south to central and eastern Tanzania, Mozambique and coastal South Africa.

Supposed fossil remains of Late Miocene tinkerbirds were found at Kohfidisch (Austria)[1] but are not yet thoroughly studied. It is not clear whether they belong to the extant genus, but given the late date this may well be so.

Footnotes

  1. Mlíkovský (2002)

References

  • Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002): Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press, Prague. ISBN 80-901105-3-8 PDF fulltext


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