Moustached Tinkerbird
Pogoniulus leucomystax(Sharpe, RB, 1892)
English (US) Moustached Tinkerbird
The Moustached Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus leucomystax) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Lybiidae (African Barbets) in the order Piciformes.
Range: eastern Uganda and western Kenya to southern MalawiRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pogoniulus leucomystax
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Moustached Tinkerbird
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1892)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Barbatula leucomystax
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1892)
- Type locality
- Sotik, Kenya Colony.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.6, vol.4, no.14 p.310
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Speckled Tinkerbird
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Green Tinkerbird
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Red-rumped Tinkerbird
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Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
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Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
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Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
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