Tinkerbird

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Tinkerbirds
Western green tinkerbird.jpg
Western tinkerbird (P. coryphaea) in Mgahinga National Park, Uganda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Pogoniulus
Lafresnaye, 1842
Type species
Bucco pusillus
Dumont, 1805

The tinkerbirds or tinker barbets are the genus Pogoniulus of the Lybiidae, the African barbet family of near passerines, which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. Tinkerbirds are widely distributed in tropical Africa.

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Taxonomy

The genus Pogoniulus was introduced in 1842 by the French ornithologist Frédéric de Lafresnaye with "Le Barbion mâle" Levaillant, that is Bucco pusillus Dumont, 1805, as the type species, now the southern red-fronted tinkerbird. [1] [2] [3] The genus name is a diminutive of the name Pogonias that had been introduced in 1811 by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. [4] Pogonias is from the Ancient Greek πωγωνιας/pōgōnias meaning "bearded". [5]

The genus contains 10 species: [6]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Speckled Tinkerbird - Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E1361 (16198696965), crop.jpg Speckled tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceusAngola, 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.
Green Tinkerbird, Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya CD5A4273.jpg Green tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplexKenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
Moustached tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystaxKenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Western green tinkerbird.jpg Western tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaeaAngola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Red-rumped Tinkerbird - Ankasa - Ghana 14 S4E2139, crop.jpg Red-rumped tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavusAngola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Pogoniulus subsulphureus 232779361.jpg Yellow-throated tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureusAngola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird.jpg Yellow-rumped tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatusAngola, 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.
Northern red-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus uropygialisEritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia to southeast Sudan, Uganda and southeast Tanzania
Tinkerbird Red-fronted 2010 10 08 16 Alan Manson Ithala GR.jpg Southern red-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillusSouthern Mozambique and eastern South Africa
Yellow-fronted tinkerbird, Pogoniulus chrysoconus, at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, South Africa (15819114098), crop.jpg Yellow-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconusAfrica south of the Sahara Desert

Supposed fossil remains of Late Miocene tinkerbirds were found at Kohfidisch (Austria) [7] but are not yet thoroughly studied. It is not clear whether they belong to an extant genus, but given the late date this may well be so.

Footnotes

  1. de Lafresnaye, Frédéric (1842). d'Orbigny, Alcide (ed.). Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (in French). Vol. 2 Text. Paris: Au Bureau Principal d'Éditeur. p. 463.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 44.
  3. Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 328. ISBN   978-0-9568611-0-8.
  4. Jobling, James A. "Pogoniulus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  5. Jobling, James A. "Pogonias". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  7. Mlíkovský (2002)

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