Zenker's honeyguide

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Melignomon zenkeri |volume=2016 |page=e.T22680663A92871670 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680663A92871670.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Melignomon

| species = zenkeri

| authority = Reichenow, 1898

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| range_map = Melignomon zenkeri map.svg

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Zenker's honeyguide (Melignomon zenkeri) is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German botanist Georg Zenker.{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=377|author2=Watkins, Michael }}

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