Crinifer
| Crinifer | |
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| File:Crinifer piscator -Lotherton Hall, West Yorkshire, England-8a.jpg | |
| Western plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) at Lotherton Hall, England | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Musophagiformes |
| Family: | Musophagidae |
| Genus: | Crinifer Jarocki, 1821 |
| Type species | |
| Phasianus africanus[1] Latham, 1790
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| Species | |
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C. piscator | |
Crinifer is a genus of birds in the turaco family. They are restricted to Africa. Formerly, the genus only contained the plantain-eaters, but in 2021, go-away-birds were merged into the genus.
They are large, noisy, and conspicuous birds, but lack the brilliant colours of their relatives. They are mainly grey, with a long tail and an erectile head crest. They feed on fruit, especially figs, seeds, and other vegetable matter.
Unlike many of the brighter forest dwelling turacos these are birds of African open country and have drab grey and white plumage. In Southern Africa, these birds are known as kwêvoëls, though they are also called loeries along with the other turacos.
The go-away-birds are named for their raucous "go away" call.[2]
The genus was erected by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki in 1821 with the western plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) as the type species.[3] The name combines the Latin crinis meaning "hair" and -fer meaning "bearing".[4]
Extant species
[edit | edit source]The genus now contains five species:.[5]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Eastern plantain-eater
File:Eastern grey plantain-eater (Crinifer zonurus) female.jpg |
Crinifer zonurus (Rüppell, 1835) |
east Africa. | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Western plantain-eater | Crinifer piscator (Boddaert, 1783) |
west Africa | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Bare-faced go-away-bird
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Crinifer personatus (Rüppell, 1842) |
Ethiopia, and Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Grey go-away-bird
File:Grey Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides concolor) (32339139354), crop.jpg |
Crinifer concolor (Smith, 1833) |
southern Angola, southern DRC, Zambia, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| White-bellied go-away-bird
File:Corythaixoides leucogaster -Buffalo Springs National Park, Kenya-8.jpg |
Crinifer leucogaster (Rüppell, 1842) |
eastern Africa Map of range |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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