Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

12 cm

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird favors fruit, particularly mistletoe berries, and an array of other genera. It also consumes insects like termites and moths. Their distinctive feeding includes discarding the epicarp of berries and engaging in courtship feeding. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird forages via gleaning or flycatching and defends fruiting trees solitarily.

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is traditionally found in a variety of forested habitats which include highland and lowland areas, particularly at the peripheries of forests, near clearings, and in leftover forest clumps after land has been cleared. It favors environments such as riverine forests, moist sections of dryer woods, and various types of tree plantations including those used for agriculture like coffee. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird can also adapt to human-altered landscapes and often resides in gardens. In areas with a mixture of indigenous and primary forest fragments, it is quite prevalent. This species is known to inhabit several forest types and can coexist with other tinkerbird species, demonstrating some habitat overlap, though it generally occupies slightly different niches. Broadly, yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is distributed across the forest zones of Central and West Africa, extending into the eastern regions of the continent.