Common name: Yellowfronted Tinkerbird

Scientific name: Pogoniulus chrysoconus

Local name: Sikuta (Kwangali)

Approximate measurements:
Mass (grams): 10
Length (cm): 12
Wing length (mm): 58
Larger sex: No difference

Distribution: Mauritania, Senegambia, Guniea, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, Zaire, Rwanda, Congo, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.

Status: Common

Habitat: Dry woodland, thornveld.

General habits: Usually found singly or in pairs in the leaf canopy of trees.

Feeding habits: Forages by gleaning insects from bark and leaves. Diet consists of insects and fruit, especially mistletoe.

Breeding habits: Monogamous, territorial, but with very small territories.
Egg laying: -
Nest: Hole in a tree excavated by both sexes
Eggs: 2-3
Incubation: Unrecorded
Young: Hatch naked and blind. They are fed by both parents on insects and fruit. Faecal matter removed in a faecal sack. Fledgling period unknown.