Northern puffback
Species of bird
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The northern puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in northern sub-Saharan Africa. It forms a superspecies with the black-backed puffback, which replaces it in eastern equatorial and southern Africa.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Dryoscopus |
| Species: | D. gambensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dryoscopus gambensis (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823) | |
Habitat
Subspecies
There are five accepted subspecies:[3]
- D. g. gambensis (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823) – Senegambia to coastal Gabon
- D. g. congicus Sharpe, 1901 – lower catchment of Congo River
- D. g. malzacii (Heuglin, 1870) – eastern Cameroon to northwestern Tanzania
- D. g. erythreae Neumann, 1899 – Eritrea to South Sudan
- D. g. erwini Sassi, 1923 – Itombwe in eastern DRC
Gallery
Male D. g. gambensis at Mole National Park, Ghana
Male D. g. gambensis in The Gambia
Male D. g. malzacii at Lake Nakuru N.P., Kenya
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