Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus)
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:
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatusrecording
- Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureusrecording
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