Yellow-rumped tinkerbird

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

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.

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).

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)

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.

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  in Uganda
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  Illustration by J.G. Keulemans

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• (Yellow-rumped tinkerbird = ) Golden-rumped tinker barbet - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

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