Cassin's honeybird (''Prodotiscus insignis''), also known as Cassin's honeyguide, is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Indicatoridae Honeyguides (family Indicatoridae) are near passerine birds in the order Piciformes. They are also known as indicator birds, or honey birds, although the latter term is also used more narrowly to refer to species of the genus ''Prodotiscus''. The ...

Range

Its range extends across the African tropical rainforest (also overlapping the

Dahomey Gap In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo, and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separat ...

References

Cassin's honeybird Cassin's honeybird (''Prodotiscus insignis''), also known as Cassin's honeyguide, is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. Range Its range extends across the Tropical forest, African tropical rainforest (also overlapping the Dahomey Gap ...

Birds of the African tropical rainforest

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