Speckled tinkerbird

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Speckled tinkerbird
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Pogoniulus
Species:
P. scolopaceus
Binomial name
Pogoniulus scolopaceus
(Bonaparte, 1850)
Subspecies [2]
  • P. s. scolopaceus - (Bonaparte, 1850)
  • P. s. stellatus - (Jardine & Fraser, 1852)
  • P. s. flavisquamatus - (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1855)
Nyamebe Bepo Forest Reserve, Ashanti Region, Ghana Speckled tinkerbirds (Pogoniulus scolopaceus) Nyamebe Bepo.jpg
Nyamebe Bepo Forest Reserve, Ashanti Region, Ghana

The speckled tinkerbird (Pogoniulus scolopaceus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family (African barbets).

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Pogoniulus scolopaceus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22681736A92917560. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681736A92917560.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.