Yellow-rumped tinkerbird

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

Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
Adult bird in the Kruger N. P.
Call recorded in Saiwa Swamp, Kenya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Pogoniulus
Species:	P. bilineatus
Binomial name
Pogoniulus bilineatus (Sundevall, 1850)
Synonyms
Barbatula bilineata

Relationships

It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).

Subspecies

Pogoniulus bilineatus includes the following subspecies:^[2]

• P. b. leucolaimus - (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1851)
• P. b. poensis - (Alexander, 1908)
• P. b. mfumbiri - (Ogilvie-Grant, 1907)
• P. b. jacksoni - (Sharp, 1897)
• P. b. fischeri - (Reichenow, 1880)
• P. b. bilineatus - (Sundevall, 1850)

Range

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Gallery

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  in Uganda
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  Illustration by J.G. Keulemans