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Pogoniulus bilineatus
(Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, Golden-rumped tinker barbet)
Swartblestinker [Afrikaans]; Geelstuit-ketellapper
[Dutch]; Barbion à croupion jaune [French]; Goldbürzel-bartvogel [German];
Barbadinho-de-rabadilha-limão [Portuguese]
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Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
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Reptilia (reptiles) >
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Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Piciformes >
Family: Lybiidae
The Yellow-rumped tinkerbird occurs from Senegal east
through the Sahel to Uganda, extending south to Angola and the eastern
coast of southern Africa. It mainly eats fruit, with the remainder of its diet
insects and nectar, foraging in the upper canopy of trees. Both sexes excavate
the nest, which is a chamber normally dug into the underside of dead branches.
It lays 2-4, usually 3 eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, for an unknown
period.
Distribution and habitat
It occurs from Senegal east
through the Sahel to Uganda, extending south to Angola and the eastern
coast of southern Africa. Here it is fairly common in evergreen and moist
lowland forest.
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Distribution of Yellow-rumped tinkerbird in southern Africa,
based on statistical smoothing of the records from first SA Bird Atlas
Project (©
Animal Demography unit, University of
Cape Town; smoothing by Birgit Erni and Francesca Little). Colours range
from dark blue (most common) through to yellow (least common).
See here for the latest distribution
from the SABAP2. |
Food
It mainly eats fruit, with the
remainder of its diet insects and nectar, foraging in the upper canopy of trees.
The following food items have been recorded in its diet:
- Fruits
- Mistletoes
- Tapinanthus
- Erianthemum
- Helixanthera
- Viscum
- Ficus (wild figs)
- Trema orientalis (Pigeonwood)
- Apodytes dimidiata (White-pear)
- Bridelia micrantha (Mitzeerie)
- Antidesma venosum (Tasel-berry)
- Allophylus natalensis (Dune false-currant)
- Scutia myrtina (Cat-thorn)
- Grewia flavescens (Sandpaper raisin)
- Stelitzia nicolai (Coastal sterlitzia)
- Insects
- Nectar of Aloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe)
Breeding
- Both sexes excavate the nest, which is a
chamber normally dug into the underside of dead branches.
- Egg-laying season is from July-February in Zimbabwe and from
October-March in South Africa.
- It lays 2-4, usually 3 eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, for an
unknown period.
Threats
Not threatened.
References
-
Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG (eds) 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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