Western Grey Plantain-eater

This species is a resident breeder in open woodland habitats in tropical west Africa. It lays two or three eggs in a tree platform nest.

The Western Grey Plantain-eater is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Western Grey Plantain-eater appears on the gate to the herb-garden and gives a bubbling call. Out of absolutely nowhere another three appear, swooping into the garden like well-drilled corsairs, and - with what I’d swear are huge grins - strip the remaining leaves from those well-tended vines inside three minutes and then disappear quickly back over the wall and out of sight again. More

Plantain-eater or Western Grey Plantain-eater, is a large member of the turaco family, a group of large arboreal near-passerine birds restricted to Africa. This species is a resident breeder in open woodland habitats in tropical west Africa. It lays two or three eggs in a tree platform nest. These are common, noisy and conspicuous birds, despite lacking the brilliant colours of relatives such as the Violet Turaco. They are 50 cm long, including a long tail. More

* Western Grey Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) Portrait of an adult Saly, Thiès Region, Senegal (Monotypic species) Alain Fossé 15 February 2004 49 weeks ago 4 * Adult Western Grey Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) Adult in a tree Saly, Thiès Region, Senegal (Monotypic species) Alain Fossé 15 February 2004 49 weeks ago 3. More

Western Grey Plantain-eater has a thick bright yellow bill, and shows a white wing bar in flight. The sexes are identical, but immatures have a black woolly head without silver streaking. This bird is similar to the closely related Eastern Grey Plantain-eater. The latter species has white tail bars, and lacks the chest bars and dark wing feather shafts of its western relative. More

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