Northern puffback

The northern puffback is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae.
It is found in northern sub-Saharan Africa. It forms a superspecies with the black-backed puffback, which replaces it in eastern equatorial and southern Africa.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and moist savanna.

Subspecies

There are five accepted subspecies:D. g. gambensis – Senegambia to coastal GabonD. g. congicus Sharpe, 1901 – lower catchment of Congo RiverD. g. malzacii – eastern Cameroon to northwestern TanzaniaD. g. erythreae Neumann, 1899 – Eritrea to South SudanD. g. erwini Sassi, 1923 – Itombwe in eastern DRC