Turacos (Musophagidae)
Eastern Grey Plantain-eater (Crinifer zonurus) - HBW 4, p. 506
French: Touraco à queue barrée
German: Bindenlärmvogel
Spanish: Turaco Gris Oriental
Taxonomy: Chizaerhis zonurus Rüppell, 1835, Temben, Ethiopia.
Forms a superspecies with C. piscator, with which has been considered conspecific. Monotypic.
Distribution: Eritrea, Ethiopian Rift Valley and W highlands, S & W Sudan, N & NE Zaire S through Uganda and Rwanda to SE Zaire (R Niemba and upper R Lualaba), W Burundi, NW Tanzania E to Mwanza, Serengeti and R Malagarasi, and W Kenya from Mt Elgon S to R Mara; also disjunctly in SE Chad and N Central African Republic (where possibly sympatric with C. piscator).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird flying to a bush to feed on flowers Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 6 years ago 56 sec 4.4 -
A bird on top of a tree, preening Locality Entebbe, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 26 August 2006 6 years ago 38 sec 4 -
bird looking around Locality Semliki National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 26 September 2010 2 years ago 23 sec 3.9 -
A bird preening on a branch. Locality Mbarara, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 6 March 2008 4 years ago 22 sec 3.3 -
A bird in a tree, preening Locality Nanyangacor, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan (Monotypic species)
Marc de Bont 13 February 2004 6 years ago 51 sec 3.1
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Perched close-by in a bush in downtown Entebbe. A very common bird.
Locality Entebbe, Uganda
Lee Hunter 16 August 2012 13 weeks ago 4.5 -
Perched in a tree
Locality Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
John A Thompson 16 January 2012 1 year ago 4.2 -
Two birds perched in trees
Locality Kampala, Uganda
Rick Simpson 8 October 2004 3 years ago 3.7 -
A partly hidden adult perched in a tree.
Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 9 February 2009 14 weeks ago 3.6 -
Bird in central Kamapala (in a stand of trees that have since been lost due to houe-building)
Locality Kampala, Uganda
Rick Simpson 28 October 2006 3 years ago 3.5 -
Two birds in an acacia.
Locality Bilen Lodge, Awash National Park, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 11 November 2011 50 weeks ago 3
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Calls by one bird. Locality Dallas Zoo, Dallas, Texas, USA (United States)
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 18 June 2012 36 weeks ago 4
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