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Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird

Small and noisy...in the African barbet
family Lybiidae ...common in wide-
spread eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pogoniulus uropygialis

(L 3.5-4.25")

Masai Mara

25Oct2014

We are nearer to Spring

Than we were in September,

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December.

(Oliver Herford)

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Library

Pogoniulus is a dim. of pogonias,
barbet; uropygialis in Latin
means rump.

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