Northern puffback explained

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.^[1]

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and moist savanna.

Subspecies

There are five accepted subspecies:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Sinclair . Ian . Ryan . Peter . Birds of Africa south of the Sahara . 2010 . Struik Nature . Cape Town . 9781770076235 . 580–581 . 2nd.
2. Web site: Fry . H. . 2017 . Northern Puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona . 13 April 2017.