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markscheflen.bsky.social
Western Tinkerbird found in forests and woodlands of East and Central Africa. Feeds mostly on fruits and insects and remains in dense foliage. markscheflen.com #birdsofuganda #tinkerbirds #bwindiImpenetrableforest #birdsofeastafrica #biodiversity #conservationphotography #birdphotography
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
markscheflen.bsky.social
Western Tinkerbird found in forests and woodlands of East and Central Africa. Feeds mostly on fruits and insects and remains in dense foliage. markscheflen.com #birdsofuganda #tinkerbirds #BwindiImpenetrableForest #birdsofeastafrica #birdoftheday#birdsphotography #birdsofinstagram #birds #bird
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
elleskinner.bsky.social
Part of a bird art trade with
@turtlesoup.bsky.social
:)

I found the Green Tinkerbird on Cornell Labs and was really charmed by all the photos of them sharing food with each other, so I chose that as my subject

#art #birds #watercolor #birdart 🦉
Watercolor painting of two green tinkerbirds sharing food
October 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
bou.org.uk
Female song in tinkerbirds (family Lybiidae) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ostrich | #ornithology 🪶
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 AM
jenteo.bsky.social
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

Female preference for red plumage drives hybridization in tinkerbirds
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/f...

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Female preference for red plumage drives hybridization in tinkerbirds
does this red plumage also honestly signal male quality?
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December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jenteo.bsky.social
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

Trouble with the Tinkerbirds: Different subspecies sing the same song
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Trouble with the Tinkerbirds: Different subspecies sing the same song
Two genetically distinct subspecies of the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird sing similar songs, suggesting hybridization.   Want to make a biologist stutter? Just ask him or her to define a species in…
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December 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM
loisrancilhac.bsky.social
Very happy to share a new paper open access in Syst Biol. Introgression is commonly reported in phylogenomic studies, but whether these patterns are caused by ancestral or contemporary gene flow is rarely understood. Here we took a stab at this problem using parapatric tinkerbirds as a model (1/10)
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May 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
jessealston.bsky.social
Did not realize tinkerbirds were mistletoe specialists—I need to pay more attention to the mistletoes next time I’m in Kenya
June 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
kohngregory.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...
Female song in tinkerbirds (family Lybiidae)
In species that are sexually monomorphic, it can be challenging to ascertain whether both males and females sing. This is particularly the case when there are no discernible differences in the voca...
www.tandfonline.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM
ecosystemunraveller.com
All the more remarkable when you consider their origins. Flowerpeckers arose from
nectarivores, Euphonias from seed eating finches. There are eight other groups of specialists including one non passerine group, tinkerbirds of subsaharan Africa (miniature barbets!)
June 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
loisrancilhac.bsky.social
This is part of broader work on speciation and color evolution in tinkerbirds led by @akirschel.bsky.social. Thanks a lot to him and to all co-authors, as well as reviewers and editors at Syst Biol. (10/10)
May 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
loisrancilhac.bsky.social
When inferring a phylogeny using only regions of the genome with very low recombination rate (and low introgression rate), we recovered another topology where Red-fronted tinkerbirds are monophyletic. We believe this best represents the species tree of this group. (6/10)
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
akirschel.bsky.social
The day after I make that post with an extremely tight deadline, the deadline is extended to 30th May 2025. Please repost! 🙏
May 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
owlice.bsky.social
Four #birds
🦉

Burchell's Starling
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Southern Chinspot Batis

South Africa
This Burchell's Starling is perched with its back to the camera and its right side visible to the photographer. It is a shiny medium-sized bird, and shows a lovely iridescent blue-green-purple head, chest, tummy, and back in the sun. It has dark barring on its wings and long tail. The crown is also blue-green, but the face of the bird appears black, as does its eye and beak. It's gorgeous; what a bird!! omg, these birds! I love hornbills, especially the flying chili peppers and flying bananas; they are adorable. This flying banana, a Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, is a medium-sized black-and-white bird, and feeds on the ground. It has a long tail and long eyelashes fringing its bright yellow eyes, and a large curved yellow bill with a bit of black and reddish trim at its tip and base. It has a white belly, grey lightly striated neck and chest, and black back plumage with white spots and stripes. It looks serious, but in the cutest way possible. Tinkerbirds are small barbets with better color coordination. This Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is perched facing to the right of the photo and has a green berry or seed in its black beak. Its head is black and white striped, with a black mask through its dark eye and a white stripe above; the throat and upper chest is usually white, but shows pale yellow here, as does its tummy. The upper and wings are black and yellow. These are handsome little birds. Small black, white, grey, and rufous bird perched in profile on a branch; she is facing to the left of the photo. She looks as though she might have a Napoleon complex; definitely a boss bird. She has a black beak, grey crown, black mask, yellow eyes, and a white collar. She sports a rufous (or chestnut) chinspot and narrow bib on her white neck and chest. Her wings are black and grey and have a prominent white stripe. Adult males do not have the chinspot and narrow bib.
September 1, 2024 at 1:50 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
3589 Jubilees at Moustached tinkerbirds
March 21, 2026 at 1:47 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
3014 Svedbergs at Yellow-rumped tinkerbirds
March 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
926 Eons at Red-rumped tinkerbirds
March 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
4162 Years at Western tinkerbirds
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
4466 Deciseconds at Red-rumped tinkerbirds
January 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
3220 Atomic times at Red-rumped tinkerbirds
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
3883 Eons at Speckled tinkerbirds
February 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
Three Dazzling Nights at Northern red-fronted tinkerbirds
February 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
3750 Magnificent Years at Speckled tinkerbirds
January 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
Five Years at Northern red-fronted tinkerbirds
December 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM
loisrancilhac.bsky.social
We studied Red- and Yellow-fronted Tinkerbirds, which form several hybrid zones across Africa. (2/10)
May 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM