Turacos (Musophagidae)
Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus) - HBW 4, p. 501
French: Touraco à gros bec
German: Blaurückenturako
Spanish: Turaco Piquigualdo
Other common names: Black-tipped Crested/Verreaux's Turaco
Taxonomy: Corythaix macrorhynchus Fraser, 1839, Sierra Leone.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- macrorhynchus (Fraser, 1839) - Sierra Leone E to Ghana.
- verreauxii (Schlegel, 1854) - Nigeria, Cameroon and Bioko (Fernando Póo) S to Gabon, SW Congo, W Zaire and N Angola (Cabinda).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Partly obscured bird in canopy, from canopy walkway Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrorhynchus)
mark sutton 29 November 2010 1 year ago 34 sec 3
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Bird seen from the canopy walkway.
Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrorhynchus)
Ken Havard 23 November 2009 1 year ago 2.4
- No sound recordings available yet
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