Northern Puffback

When to see the Northern Puffback

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Northern Puffback

The map shades 28 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 South Sudan.

About the Northern Puffback

The northern puffback 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.

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Easily confused with

Pink-footed PuffbackDryoscopus angolensisThe pink-footed puffback is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabiniSabine's puffback, also known as the large-billed puffback, is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Pringle's PuffbackDryoscopus pringliiPringle's puffback is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae.