Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii)

Other Scientific Names
Tauraco schuettii [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Family
Musophagidae (Turacos)

Size
40 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cabanis, 1879)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 500 - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii) [XC236325]
by id from Ruhija, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Kisoro, Western Region, Uganda (song)

Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii) [XC740025]
by Deville Tanguy from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Livingstone's Turaco (Tauraco livingstonii), Schalow's Turaco (Tauraco schalowi), Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix), Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) 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. Two additional localized forms (sharpei and finschi) described, but doubtfully valid, owing to much intergradation with emini and nominate schuetti.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

emini Reichenow, 1893 - Southern Sudan, eastern Zaire, Uganda and western Kenya to north-western Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda.
schuettii (Cabanis, 1879) - Democratic Republic of the Congo east to the Ituri Basin and south to northern Angola.

References
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Files:

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