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;[[:Category:Indicator|Indicator]] maculatus | ;[[:Category:Indicator|Indicator]] maculatus | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | + | 18 cm. Forms a species pair with [[Scaly-throated Honeyguide]]. Overall yellowish olive-green, dusky lores and area around the eye. No streaking on the head, sub-moustachial area unmarked and more yellow. Chin, throat and breast light olive green with buffish centres to the feathers - making it look "spotted". Belly and undertail coverts sparsley streaked. Wings as upperparts with thin yellowish margins to the coverts, secondaries and tertials. Primaries black. tail blackish central feathers, outers white with narrower black terminal band than [[Scaly-throated Honeyguide]].Eye black, bill black with yelowish horn bases to both mandibles, legs dark grey. | |
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| − | + | [[Africa]]. [[Gambia]] to western [[Nigeria]]. [[Cameroon]] to extreme western [[Uganda]], down to [[Burundi]] and across to northern [[Angola]]. | |
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | Monotypic. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
Dense, lowland forest along rivers. | Dense, lowland forest along rivers. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
Solitary. | Solitary. | ||
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| + | '''Voice'''. longer trill than Scaly-throated Honeyguide | ||
It searches out beeswax sites, and also takes caterpillars, beetles, and spiders. | It searches out beeswax sites, and also takes caterpillars, beetles, and spiders. | ||
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- Indicator maculatus
Identification
18 cm. Forms a species pair with Scaly-throated Honeyguide. Overall yellowish olive-green, dusky lores and area around the eye. No streaking on the head, sub-moustachial area unmarked and more yellow. Chin, throat and breast light olive green with buffish centres to the feathers - making it look "spotted". Belly and undertail coverts sparsley streaked. Wings as upperparts with thin yellowish margins to the coverts, secondaries and tertials. Primaries black. tail blackish central feathers, outers white with narrower black terminal band than Scaly-throated Honeyguide.Eye black, bill black with yelowish horn bases to both mandibles, legs dark grey.
Distribution
Africa. Gambia to western Nigeria. Cameroon to extreme western Uganda, down to Burundi and across to northern Angola.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Dense, lowland forest along rivers.
Behaviour
Solitary.
Voice. longer trill than Scaly-throated Honeyguide
It searches out beeswax sites, and also takes caterpillars, beetles, and spiders.
It parasitizes the nests of the Buff-spotted Woodpecker.
