This Secondary Area is defined by the range of White-chested Tinkerbird Pogoniulus makawai (classified as Vulnerable) which is known by just a single specimen from north-west Zambia, collected there at c.1,150 m in 'mavunda' forest, in which Cryptosepalum is a dominant tree (Dowsett 1985). It is here treated as a good species, following Fry et al. (1988) and Collar et al. (1994), but was considered to be an aberrant Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird P. bilineatus by Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) and by Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993). There are extensive mavunda thickets in north-west Zambia and adjacent Angola, and this bird may conceivably persist as a rare relict in this habitat (Fry et al. 1988).

Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of the World. Priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 7. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: North-west Zambia. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/351 on 27/12/2024.