Zenker's Honeyguide (Melignomon zenkeri) | Range and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestSmall · 24 g

When to see the Zenker's Honeyguide

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Zenker's Honeyguide

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 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.

Uganda Equatorial Guinea Cameroon Congo - Kinshasa

Recorded as a rare visitor in Gabon.

About the Zenker's Honeyguide

Zenker's honeyguide is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-footed HoneyguideMelignomon eisentrautiThis small, unobtrusive bird grows to a length of about 18 cm (7 in).

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