Turacos (Musophagidae)
Green Turaco (Tauraco persa) - HBW 4, p. 499
French: Touraco vert
German: Guineaturako
Spanish: Turaco de Guinea
Other common names: Green Lourie, Guinea/Green-crested Turaco
Taxonomy: Cuculus Persa Linnaeus, 1758, Ghana.
Forms a superspecies with T. livingstonii, T. schalowi, T. corythaix, T. schuetti and T. fischeri, a complex of allopatric forms formerly treated variably either as a single polytypic species or as three, five or six species. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- buffoni (Vieillot, 1819) - Senegambia to Liberia.
- persa (Linnaeus, 1758) - Ivory Coast and Ghana E to Mt Cameroon and Bamenda Highlands.
- zenkeri (Reichenow, 1896) - S Cameroon, Gabon, N Angola, Congo and NW Zaire.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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looking around Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Daniêl Jimenez 25 December 2011 1 year ago 23 sec 4.6 -
perching on a branch Locality Abuko Nature Reserve, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Daniêl Jimenez 1 January 2011 1 year ago 1 min 19 sec 4.6 -
A close-up of a bird Locality Safari Park, Aldea del Fresno, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 31 March 2007 5 years ago 12 sec 4.5 -
birds on the ground,2 adults and 2 immatures Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Daniêl Jimenez 25 December 2011 1 year ago 1 min 8 sec 4.4 -
comming to drink Locality Abuko Nature Reserve, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Daniêl Jimenez 1 January 2012 1 year ago 38 sec 4.3 -
immature bird Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Daniêl Jimenez 25 December 2011 1 year ago 13 sec 4.3
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Adult
Locality Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia
Paul Cools 3 February 2012 27 weeks ago 4 -
An adult bird perched in the canopy (taken using fill-flash).
Locality Abuko Nature Reserve, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp buffoni)
Steve Garvie 3 years ago 4 -
A close-up of a bird.
Locality Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Josep del Hoyo 18 October 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
Bird in canopy
Locality Abuko Nature Reserve, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia
Klaus Lachenmaier 22 March 2013 5 weeks ago 3.8 -
Portrait of an adult.
Locality Barcelona Zoo, Barcelona, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp buffoni)
gemma aznar 1 August 2011 1 year ago 3.6 -
A bird perched on a trunk.
Locality Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Josep del Hoyo 18 October 2011 1 year ago 3.3
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