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- Tauraco fischeri
Identification
40cm. Bright, emerald green Turaco with a short, pointed crest with broad reddish chestnut tips running down the rear edge and onto the nape. Back and rump emerald green. Broadish black lores with a vertical white line in front of the eye, broad white stripe running from under the eye to the rear of the earcoverts. Underparts bright emerald green except for dark green undertail coverts. Wing coverts blue glossed, as is tail, rest of wing as Guinea Turaco. Bill and eyering bright red, eye dark, legs black. Zanzibar birds are distictly bluer above.
Distribution
East Africa:
Taxonomy
- T. f. fischeri: Coastal forests of southern Somalia ( Juba River ), coastal Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania
- T. f. zanzibaricus: Zanzibar
Has been considered as a subspecies of Guinea Turaco, Tauraco persa.
Habitat
Behaviour
Voice; Barking "yap yap (yap) wow wow wow wow"
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fischer's Turaco. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fischer%27s_Turaco
