Western Grey Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator)

Other Names (World)
Western Plantain-eater, Western Grey Plantain-eater, Western Gray Plantain-eater, Grey Plantain-eater, Gray Plantain-eater

Family
Musophagidae (Turacos)

Size
50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Dry savanna, arable land. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Southern Senegambia, Sierra Leone and coastal Liberia east to Central African Republic (in northern almost reaching Sudan border); also disjunctly in Congo and Zaire along R Congo south of Stanley Pool.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

Western Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) [XC425662]
by Joost van Bruggen from Marakissa, Kombo Central, West Coast Region, Gambia (call)

Western Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) [XC819106]
by Alain Malengreau from Pirang, Kombo East, Brikama, Gambia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Eastern Plantain-eater (Crinifer zonurus), with which has been considered conspecific. Formerly listed as Crinifer africanus, on grounds that Boddaert's name was based on illustration of bird unidentifiable as present species.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Western Grey Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) - 10 files

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