Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC600022]
by Fernand DEROUSSEN from Kabo Gilbertiodendron overhunted forest, Congo (Brazzaville) (call)
Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC468029]
by Andres Angulo from Mbam et Djerem National Park, main forest transect, ecotone savanna-forest, Cameroon (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.