Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa)

Other Names (World)
Green Turaco, Guinea Turaco, Green Lourie, Green-crested Turaco

Family
Musophagidae (Turacos)

Size
40 - 43 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,100 m, occasionally to 1,385 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A hoarse 'kow-kow-kow-kow'. A quieter 'krrr' alarm note.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC505422]
by BurBenj from Quitende, Quitexe, U\u00edge Province, Angola (song)

Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC241766]
by Peter Boesman from Obudu Cattle Ranch Nature Reserve, Cross River., Nigeria (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Livingstone's Turaco (Tauraco livingstonii), Schalow's Turaco (Tauraco schalowi), Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix), Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii) and Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri), a complex of allopatric forms formerly treated variably either as a single polytypic species or as three, five or six species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

buffoni (Vieillot, 1819) - Senegambia to Liberia.
persa (Linnaeus, 1758) - Ivory Coast and Ghana east to Mt Cameroon and Bamenda Highlands.
zenkeri Reichenow, 1896 - Southern Cameroon, Gabon, northern Angola, Congo and north-western Zaire.

References
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Files:

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