Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Turaco, Black-tipped Crested Turaco, Verreaux's Turaco

Family
Musophagidae (Turacos)

Size
40 - 43 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Fraser, 1839)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus) [XC400179]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Kakum NP, Ghana (song)

Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus) [XC103430]
by Fernand DEROUSSEN from Kakum National Park, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

macrorhynchus (Fraser, 1839) - Sierra Leone east to Ghana.
verreauxii (Schlegel, 1854) - Nigeria, Cameroon and Bioko (Fernando Póo) south to Gabon, south-western Congo, western Zaire and northern Angola (Cabinda).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus) - 10 files

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