Piciformes

Honeyguides (Indicatoridae)

HBW 7, p. 274 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 7 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-small, rather nondescript arboreal birds with small head, short bill, nostrils often raised, and generally rather drab plumage with white outer-tail markings.
• Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.
• Forest and woodland, including streamside trees in near-desert; from lowlands to near tree-line in mountains.
• 4 genera, 17 species, 33 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.