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Where does the Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird live?

Pogoniulus chrysoconus has 78,811 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1841 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird β€” Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa / CC BY 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPiciformesLybiidaePogoniulus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 37,030
Nigeria 8,604
Zimbabwe 7,285
Uganda 5,194
Zambia 5,155
Gambia 3,924
Ghana 2,278
Namibia 1,781
Senegal 1,463
Botswana 907
Ethiopia 649
Malawi 616
Burkina Faso 535
Kenya 484
Mozambique 395
DR Congo 362
Benin 335
Tanzania 265
Angola 239
Cameroon 205
Guinea-Bissau 190
Eswatini 188
Togo 187
Rwanda 152
Guinea 115
Chad 86
Mali 64
Niger 31
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 29
Liberia 15
Sudan 14
South Sudan 11
Central African Republic 10
Sierra Leone 9
Gabon 2
Congo 1
Mauritania 1

Related animals

Others in the family Lybiidae.

Black-collared Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
269,740 records
Crested Barbet
Crested Barbet
241,237 records
Pied Barbet
Pied Barbet
142,648 records
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
79,903 records
D'Arnaud's Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet
23,473 records
Speckled Tinkerbird
Speckled Tinkerbird
13,998 records
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
12,295 records
Vieillot's Barbet
Vieillot's Barbet
11,937 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.