What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Red-rumped Tinkerbird been recorded?

Pogoniulus atroflavus occurrence evidence comes from 39 records in 8 countries and territories, from 1895 to 2024. Most records come from Central African Republic.

Red-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-rumped Tinkerbird — Photo (display-sized rendition): Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPiciformesLybiidaePogoniulus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

39 records across 8 countries and territories, 1895–2024.

Pogoniulus atroflavus · GBIF taxon key 2478911

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

7 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18952024

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Red-rumped Tinkerbird has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Red-rumped Tinkerbird. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Central African Republic 13
Ghana 6
DR Congo 5
Cameroon 5
Equatorial Guinea 4
Uganda 4
Angola 1
Senegal 1

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Others in the family Lybiidae.

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Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.