Speckled Tinkerbird - BirdForum Opus

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Nominate subspecies
Photo by Kwame Brown
Ankasa forest, Ghana, September 2017

Pogoniulus scolopaceus

Identification

Length 13 cm
Upper parts olive green, spotted and speckled with yellow. Under parts yellowish, streaked olive.

Distribution

Subspecies flavisquamatus
Photo by andy wilkes
Uganda, January 2010

Coastal West Africa from Sierra Leone to northern Angola; also inland through southern Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• P. s. scolopaceus:

• Sierra Leone and south-eastern Guinea to southern Nigeria

• P. s. stellatus:

• Bioko Island (Gulf of Guinea)

• P. s. flavisquamatus:

• Southern Cameroon to extreme western Kenya, northern Angola and southern Zaire

Habitat

Forest and secondary growth.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Sinclair I & Ryan P. 2003. Birds of Africa south of the Sahara. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0620207299

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Speckled Tinkerbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Speckled_Tinkerbird

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