In 2014 in Serengeti NP in Tanzania we were staying at the Serengeti Serena Lodge. A bare-faced go-away-bird was standing in a tree next to the parking lot as our tour group from Fun-For-Less was congregating to get into our vehicles for a safari. This bird was oblivious to the crowd and quite noisy as I recall. The name was really weird, but my first introduction to the turaco family, which includes the plantain-eaters and go-away-birds. I still need to see a turaco, but I've now seen three species of go-away-bird and one species of plantain-eater.
It is named for its distinctive bare, black face. The male has a black beak and the female a green beak, the major difference between the sexes. It primarily eats fruits, leaf buds and seeds.
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| Range map from Birds of the World. |
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