Northern Puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis)
About the Northern Puffback
The northern puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in northern sub-Saharan Africa. It forms a superspecies with the black-backed puffback, which replaces it in eastern equatorial and southern Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and moist savanna. There are five accepted subspecies: D. g. gambensis (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823) – Senegambia to coastal Gabon D. g. congicus Sharpe, 1901 – lower catchment of Congo River D. g. malzacii (Heuglin, 1870) – eastern Cameroon to northwestern Tanzania D. g. erythreae Neumann, 1899 – Eritrea to South Sudan D. g. erwini Sassi, 1923 – Itombwe in eastern DRC.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 33 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-ND · 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-backed PuffbackDryoscopus cublarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.