Yellow-footed Honeyguide

The Yellow-footed Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Cameroon, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, possibly Ivory Coast, and possibly Ghana. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Yellow-footed Honeyguide is classified as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction.

(1958) and Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti (1981) More

* Yellow-footed Honeyguide, Melignomon eisentrauti * Zenker's Honeyguide, Melignomon zenkeri * Genus: Prodotiscus * Cassin's Honeyguide, Prodotiscus insignis * Green-backed Honeyguide, Prodotiscus zambesiae * Wahlberg's Honeyguide, Prodotiscus regulus References - 1. ^ (Isack and Reyer, 1989.) 2. More

The Yellow-footed Honeyguide (Melignomon eisentrauti) is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Cameroon, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, possibly Ivory Coast, and possibly Ghana. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. Source - * BirdLife International 2004. Melignomon eisentrauti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007. More

species for the country: Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti at Erokut in western CRNP, Oban Division, Mount Kupe Bush-Shrike Telophorus kupeensis in the north-eastern CRNP, Okwangwo Division, in the former Boshi Extension Forest Reserve, and Ursula’s Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae in the proposed extension in eastern CRNP, Oban Division, and in Okwangwo Division. The latter two were known previously only from Cameroon. More

Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Data Deficient Family/Sub-family Indicatoridae Species name author Louette, 1981 Taxonomic source(s) Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) Identification Difficult to locate and identify 18 cm. Small, obscure, forest honeyguide. More

Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti Dwarf Honeyguide Indicator pumilio Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis Thick-billed Honeyguide Indicator conirostris Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus Yellow-rumped Honeyguide Indicator xanthonotus Malaysian Honeyguide Indicator archipelagicus Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator Lyre-tailed Honeyguide Melichneutes robustus family links More

1958, and the Yellow-footed Honeyguide (Melignomon eisentrauti) as recently as 1981, and the biology of both remains largely unknown. The mysterious Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus), famed for sounds produced in its aerial display, indeed is known from some countries and large regions of Central Africa only thanks to those very sounds. Most of what is known about honeyguides comes from investigations of five or six species, and even for those the information is incomplete. More