Eastern Plantain-eater

Crinifer zonurus

Eastern Plantain-eater, Crinifer zonurus, photo © by Michael Plagens.

Hippo Point, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Oct. 2016.

From Wikipedia: Common, noisy and conspicuous birds but lacking the brilliant colors of other turaco. They are 50 cm long, including a long tail, and weigh 392–737 g. Their plumage is mainly gray above spotted with brown. The head, erectile crest, neck and breast are brown streaked with silver. The underparts are whitish, heavily streaked with brown. Eastern plantain-eater has a thick bright yellow bill, and shows a white wing bar in flight. The sexes appear similar, but immatures have a black woolly head without silver streaking.

Musophagidae -- Turaco Family

Books:

  • Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Zimmerman et al.
  • Birds of East Africa by Stevenson and Fanshawe

More Information:


Kenya Natural History

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