Red-throated Wryneck
Jynx ruficollis
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Jynx
- eBird Code
- runwry1
Vocalizations
Mahomed Desai · CC_BY_4_0
Sunčana Bradley · CC_BY_4_0
Sunčana Bradley · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (3)
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Jynx ruficollis aequatorialis
highlands of Ethiopia
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Jynx ruficollis pulchricollis
southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon to northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and northwestern Uganda
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Jynx ruficollis ruficollis
southeastern Gabon eastward to Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, south locally to northern and eastern Angola, northwestern Zambia and adjacent southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Mozambique, and eastern South Africa
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.