Northern puffback
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
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| image = Northern Puffback specimen RWD.jpg
| image2 = Northern Puffback specimen RWD, female.jpg
| image2_caption = male and female
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Dryoscopus
| species = gambensis
| authority = (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
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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.{{cite book |last1=Sinclair |first1=Ian |last2=Ryan |first2=Peter |title=Birds of Africa south of the Sahara |date=2010 |publisher=Struik Nature |location=Cape Town |isbn=9781770076235 |pages=580–581 |edition=2nd}}
Habitat
Subspecies
There are five accepted subspecies:{{cite web |last1=Fry |first1=H. |date = 2017 |title=Northern Puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) |website=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher = Lynx Edicions, Barcelona | url = http://www.hbw.com/node/60514 |access-date=13 April 2017}}
- 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
File:Dryoscopus gambensis (Malaconotidae) (Northern Puffback) - (male), Mole National Park, Ghana, crop.jpg|Male D. g. gambensis at Mole National Park, Ghana
File:Northern Puffback, Gambia (11131498496), crop.jpg|Male D. g. gambensis in The Gambia
File:NorthernPuffback.jpg|Male D. g. malzacii at Lake Nakuru N.P., Kenya
References
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Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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