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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Indicator
- Mass
- 47
- Image
- Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) (45663851145), crop.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Indicator indicator
- taxon name
- Indicator indicator
- taxon common name
- veliki medovođa
- litter size
- 4
- longest observed lifespan
- 12
- short name
- I. indicator
- taxon range
- Burkina Faso
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c
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Encyclopedic overview
The greater honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies. Claims that it also guides non-human animals are disputed.
The greater honeyguide is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa. It lives in a variety of habitats with trees, especially dry open woodland, but not in the West African rain forest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greater Honeyguide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.