Biology:Tinkerbird

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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.

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]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
120px Speckled tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus 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.
120px Green tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
120px Moustached tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
120px Western tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda.
120px Red-rumped tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus Angola, 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.
120px Yellow-throated tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus Angola, 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.
120px Yellow-rumped tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus 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.
120px Northern red-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus uropygialis Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia to southeast Sudan, Uganda and southeast Tanzania
120px Southern red-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus Southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa
120px Yellow-fronted tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus Africa 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 (in French). Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. 2 Text. Paris: Au Bureau Principal d'Éditeur. p. 463. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57476418. 
  2. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 44. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477477. 
  3. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8. https://archive.org/details/howardmoorecompl0001howa/page/328/mode/1up. 
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "Pogoniulus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Pogoniulus. 
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "Pogonias". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Pogonias. 
  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. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/jacamars/. 
  7. ↑ Mlíkovský (2002)

References

  • Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002): Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press, Prague. ISBN 80-901105-3-8 {{isbn}}: Check isbn value: checksum (help) PDF fulltext

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