Brown-backed honeybird

The brown-backed honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus), also known as Wahlberg's honeybird, Wahlberg's honeyguide and sharp-billed honeyguide, is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. This bird is named after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg.

Brown-backed honeybird

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Indicatoridae
Genus: Prodotiscus
Species:
P. regulus
Binomial name
Prodotiscus regulus
Sundevall, 1850

Range

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRC, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Form peasei from southern Ethiopia = P. r. subsp. regulus Sundevall, 1850
gollark: But light isn't actually continuous in reality due to things.
gollark: Oh, those are already using optical phased arrays to track photon count in an arbitrary number of discrete frequency buckets.
gollark: I mean, a Fourier transform would allow bees to incurse into the frequency domain instead of the time domain.
gollark: Alternatively, something something Fourier transform of inbound light signal?
gollark: If it was then... construct a polynomial through all those points?

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Prodotiscus regulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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