Green-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus zambesiae)
About the Green-backed Honeybird
The green-backed honeybird (Prodotiscus zambesiae), also known as the eastern green-backed honeyguide, green-backed honeyguide and slender-billed honeyguide, is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is a nest parasite of three white-eye species. It is an insectivore that sometimes eats the waxy shed of scaly insects.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- African GoshawkAccipiter tachirorecording
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordiirecording
- Black CrakeZapornia flavirostrarecording
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalusrecording
- Bronze MannikinSpermestes cucullatarecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.