Bare-faced Go-away-bird

Bare-faced Go-away-bird
Bare-faced Go-away bird
In Akagera National Park, Rwanda
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Musophagidae
Genus: Corythaixoides
Species: C. personatus
Binomial name
Corythaixoides personatus
(Rüppell, 1842)

The Bare-faced Go-away bird (Corythaixoides personatus) is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family. It is found in two areas of Africa: one in southern Ethiopia, and the other in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.[1] It is named after its distinctive "go-away" call.

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References

  1. ^ bare-faced Go-Awayt bird at kenyabirds



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