Lyre-tailed Honeyguide

When to see the Lyre-tailed Honeyguide

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lyre-tailed Honeyguide

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Liberia.

About the Lyre-tailed Honeyguide

The lyre-tailed honeyguide is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is monotypic within the genus Melichneutes. It is found in the African tropical rainforest of Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Uganda and west of the Dahomey Gap in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-footed HoneyguideMelignomon eisentrautiThis small, unobtrusive bird grows to a length of about 18 cm (7 in). Malaysian HoneyguideIndicator archipelagicusIt is a medium-sized, up to 18 cm long, olive-brown honeyguide with greenish streaks, reddish iris, thick grey bill and greyish white below. Zenker's HoneyguideMelignomon zenkeriZenker's honeyguide is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae.