Northern puffback
male and female
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Malaconotidae
Genus:	Dryoscopus
Species:	D. gambensis
Binomial name
Dryoscopus gambensis (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)

The northern puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) 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.^[2]

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:^[3]

• D. g. gambensis (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823) – Senegambia to coastal Gabon
• D. g. congicus Sharpe, 1901 – lower catchment of Congo River
• D. g. malzacii (Heuglin, 1870) – eastern Cameroon to northwestern Tanzania
• D. g. erythreae Neumann, 1899 – Eritrea to South Sudan
• D. g. erwini Sassi, 1923 – Itombwe in eastern DRC

Gallery

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  Male D. g. gambensis at Mole National Park, Ghana
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  Male D. g. gambensis in The Gambia
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  Male D. g. malzacii at Lake Nakuru N.P., Kenya