Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus

Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus

near Yabello, Ethiopia
January 2016

The Red-fronted Tinkerbird, a small member of the Barbet family, is distributed in Africa from Eritrea and Ethiopia to Tanzania with a disjunct population from southern Mozambique to eastern South Africa. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in dry bush and woodland up to 2,500 metres.

The sub-species from southern Ethiopia and Somalia, shown here, is P. p. affinis which differs from the other two sub-species in having white rather than yellowish streaks above.

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