Pogoniulus chrysoconus
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The yellow-fronted tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) is a small bird in the family Lybiidae formerly known as yellow-fronted tinker barbet. It is sometimes considered conspecific with its southern counterpart, the red-fronted tinkerbird, Pogoniulus pusillus. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill and a world-wide tropical distribution.
The subspecies vary with respect to size and colour tone of the plumage streaks. If P. c. extoni is restricted to the southernmost population occurring in southeastern Botswana, northern South Africa and Eswatini, the following two subspecies are also recognized:
It is associated with mesic, open to closed broadleaved or mixed woodlands and...
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mole National Park | 🇬🇭 Ghana | |
| 2 | Niokolo-Koba National Park | 🇸🇳 Senegal | |
| 3 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 4 | Kafue National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 5 | Mikumi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 6 | Pilanesberg National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 8 | Lake Mburo National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 9 | Gonarezhou National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 10 | Akagera National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 11 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 12 | Bale Mountains National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 13 | Moremi Game Reserve | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 14 | Semuliki National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 15 | Mana Pools National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 16 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 17 | Hwange National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 18 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 19 | Kidepo Valley National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 20 | South Luangwa National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 21 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 22 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maiduguri | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 2 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 3 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 4 | Serrekunda | 🇬🇲 Gambia | |
| 5 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 7 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 8 | N'Djamena | 🇹🇩 Chad | |
| 9 | Lomé | 🇹🇬 Togo | |
| 10 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird sighting in Mole National Park on a given day, based on 142 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 65th most-seen of the 266 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, September and November–January
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird in Mole National Park on a given day, against about 20% in February and June, the lowest months. July has too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 22 parks where we can rate Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird sightings, Mole National Park has the highest daily chance: about 30%. Next come Niokolo-Koba National Park (Senegal, about 20%) and Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda, about 20%).
Same family: Lybiidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird that you can see in Mole National Park (family Lybiidae, African Barbets) are Bearded Barbet (about 30%) and Vieillot's Barbet (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Mole National Park (142 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
