The Tinkerbird is apart of the Lybiidae family that is made up of 43 species including the Speckled tinkerbird and the Western tinkerbird that are in places such as Angola and Republic of Congo.
There are 43 species ranging from the type genus Lybius of forest interior to the tinkerbirds (Pogoniulus) of forest and scrubland. The African barbets are birds in the family Lybiidae. Lybiidae Family: Speckled tinkerbird Western tinkerbird Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda. Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. The tinkerbirds or tinker barbets are the genus Pogoniulus of the Lybiidae, the African barbet family of near passerines, which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. 
