Piciformes / Picidae / Jynx

Red-throated Wryneck

Jynx ruficollis

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Mahomed Desai · CC_BY_4_0

Sunčana Bradley · CC_BY_4_0

Jynx ruficollis aequatorialis

highlands of Ethiopia
Jynx ruficollis pulchricollis

southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon to northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and northwestern Uganda
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

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.