Plantain-eaters and Go-away-birds
Crinifer
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.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Grey Go-away-bird
speciesCrinifer concolor
Western Plantain-eater
speciesCrinifer piscator
White-bellied Go-away-bird
speciesCrinifer leucogaster
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
speciesCrinifer personatus
Eastern Plantain-eater
speciesCrinifer zonurus
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 7246.