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Bare-faced Go-away-bird (Crinifer personatus)

About Bare-faced Go-away-bird (Crinifer personatus)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Musophagiformes
  • Family: Turacos

The bare-faced go-away-bird (Corythaixoides personatus) is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family. It is found in two areas of Africa: one in southern Ethiopia, and the other in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.[2] It is named after its distinctive go-away call.

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Zimmerman Turner & Pearson (1999) list the Kenyan and Tanzanian species of this bird asCorythaixoides personata leopoldi[3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Corythaixoides personatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. ^ bare-faced go-away bird at kenyabirds
  3. ^ Helm Field Guides - Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania - Dale A Zimmerman, Donald A Turner & David J Pearson [A & C Black, London] 1999. Page 118, Page 366

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  • 2003-03-07
    Serengeti, Tanzania
  • 2025-01-31
    Engikaret Lark Plains, Tanzania
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