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The western plantain-eater has a thick bright yellow bill and shows a white wing bar in flight. The sexes are identical, but juveniles have a black woolly head without silver streaking.
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to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist
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303:. The latter species has white tail bars, and lacks the chest bars and dark wing feather shafts of its western relative.
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These are common, noisy and conspicuous birds, despite lacking the brilliant colours of relatives such as the
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This species is a resident breeder in open woodland habitats in tropical west
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The western plantain-eater was described by the French polymath
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Daubenton's plate as representing
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244:. It lays two or three eggs in a tree platform nest.
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360:. The western plantain-eater is now placed in the
571:"Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse"
450:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22688415A93196560.en
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535:(in French). Utrecht. p. 28, Number 478.
373:in 1821. The generic name combines the Latin
317:call, which is very familiar in west Africa.
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650:The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
599:The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
341:which was produced under the supervision of
299:This bird is similar to the closely related
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369:that was erected by the Polish zoologist
512:Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle
508:"Le tanas ou faucon pêcheur, du Sénégal"
339:Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle
306:This species feeds on fruit, especially
417:
327:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
313:The Western plantain-eater has a loud
602:. London: Christopher Helm. pp.
577:. International Ornithologists' Union
381:meaning "bearing". The specific name
7:
653:. London: Christopher Helm. p.
310:, seeds and other vegetable matter.
1262:IUCN Red List least concern species
436:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
226:family, a group of large arboreal
14:
633:Check-list of Birds of the World
552:Check-list of Birds of the World
492:Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de
472:Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de
425:BirdLife International. (2016).
81:
569:; Donsker, David, eds. (2019).
678:by Barlow, Wacher and Disley,
477:Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux
331:Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux
1:
1282:Taxa named by Pieter Boddaert
575:World Bird List Version 9.2
504:Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie
388:The American ornithologist
222:, is a large member of the
220:western grey plantain-eater
1298:
921:White-bellied go-away-bird
647:Jobling, James A. (2010).
596:Jobling, James A. (2010).
496:Martinet, François-Nicolas
396:that had been proposed by
385:is Latin for "fisherman.
335:François-Nicolas Martinet
183:
176:
78:Scientific classification
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356:in his catalogue of the
1277:Birds described in 1783
911:Bare-faced go-away-bird
24:Western plantain-eater
906:Eastern plantain-eater
901:Western plantain-eater
301:eastern plantain-eater
293:
274:
262:
206:western plantain-eater
1208:Paleobiology Database
851:Purple-crested turaco
500:Daubenton, Edme-Louis
280:
268:
257:
214:), also known as the
1272:Birds of West Africa
876:White-cheeked turaco
806:Yellow-billed turaco
796:White-crested turaco
776:Livingstone's turaco
371:Feliks Paweł Jarocki
343:Edme-Louis Daubenton
791:Black-billed turaco
676:Birds of The Gambia
402:Phasianus africanus
377:meaning "hair" and
358:Planches Enluminées
283:University of Ghana
216:grey plantain-eater
48:Conservation status
816:Red-crested turaco
811:Bannerman's turaco
406:African fish eagle
294:
275:
271:Wildlife World Zoo
263:
1249:
1248:
1239:Crinifer-piscator
1195:Open Tree of Life
1008:Crinifer_piscator
994:Crinifer piscator
964:Crinifer piscator
956:Taxon identifiers
947:
946:
939:Great blue turaco
916:Grey go-away-bird
821:Hartlaub's turaco
664:978-1-4081-2501-4
628:Peters, James Lee
613:978-1-4081-2501-4
547:Peters, James Lee
429:Crinifer piscator
211:Crinifer piscator
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187:Crinifer piscator
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881:Ruspoli's turaco
801:Fischer's turaco
781:Schalow's turaco
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329:in 1770 in his
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354:Falco piscator
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228:near-passerine
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988:Wikispecies
931:Corythaeola
567:Gill, Frank
398:John Latham
349:coined the
315:cow-cow-cow
1256:Categories
1234:Xeno-canto
412:References
532:enluminés
394:africanus
163:Species:
101:Kingdom:
95:Eukaryota
1267:Crinifer
1161:22688415
1135:11046169
1034:22688415
1029:BirdLife
979:Q1061026
973:Wikidata
892:Crinifer
842:Gallirex
528:(1783).
474:(1770).
456:1 August
383:piscator
366:Crinifer
321:Taxonomy
195:Boddaert
156:Crinifer
141:Family:
115:Chordata
111:Phylum:
105:Animalia
91:Domain:
68:IUCN 3.1
1109:2475211
1083:wesple1
1057:wesple1
1016:Avibase
755:Tauraco
743:Species
719:Turacos
606:, 308.
581:20 July
337:in the
197:, 1783)
151:Genus:
131:Order:
121:Class:
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1148:555345
1091:EURING
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375:crinis
242:Africa
235:Africa
224:turaco
40:Gambia
1187:72108
1130:IRMNG
1096:31580
1078:eBird
1054:BOW:
1047:95449
733:Genus
362:genus
291:Ghana
287:Accra
231:birds
1226:5052
1169:NCBI
1156:IUCN
1143:ITIS
1122:7248
1104:GBIF
1070:ZGDQ
1042:BOLD
680:ISBN
659:ISBN
608:ISBN
583:2019
458:2021
441:2016
379:-fer
308:figs
204:The
125:Aves
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