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Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Pogoniulus bilineatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestCavity nestTiny · 13 g
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 1
Photo: Mahomed Desai · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 2
Photo: Mahomed Desai · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 3
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 4
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 5
Photo: Erwin Sieben · CC0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 6
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 7
Photo: (c) Wynand Uys, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 8
Photo: (c) Peter Archdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 9
Photo: (c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), photo 10
Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird sounds like

Sonogram of the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Song · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

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

Where to see the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Regular range

The map shades 29 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Uganda Kenya Nigeria Mozambique Rwanda Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe Zambia Cameroon Congo - Kinshasa Eswatini Equatorial Guinea Congo - Brazzaville Malawi Liberia Angola Gabon Côte d’Ivoire Senegal Guinea Sierra Leone Gambia Benin Guinea-Bissau Burundi Central African Republic Togo

About the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

The yellow-rumped tinkerbird is a bird species in the family Lybiidae, which is native to the moist tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconusThe yellow-fronted tinkerbird is approximately 11 cm (4.3 in) in length. Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus pusillus) Southern Red-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus pusillusThe southern red-fronted tinkerbird is 9–10.5 cm (3.5–4.1 in) in length. Speckled Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus scolopaceus) Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceusThe speckled tinkerbird is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.

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