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Guinea Turaco

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Guinea Turaco

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Also known as Tauraco persa

species of bird

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The Guinea Turaco (*Tauraco persa*) is a species of bird within the genus *Tauraco*. It belongs to the class Aves and is also referred to by the common names twraco gwyrdd, Guineaturako, and Turaco de Guinea. The species has a mass of 297 and a litter size of 2, with an egg incubation period of 22.

Its taxonomic range includes Africa and Burkina Faso. The IUCN Red List assessed the species as Least Concern in 2024. Records indicate 297 observations for this taxon.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, iNaturalist, IUCN Red List, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Least Concern

Guinea Turaco

species

Observations297

via IUCN

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Encyclopedic overview

The Guinea turaco (Tauraco persa), also known as the green turaco or green lourie, is a species of turaco, a group of African otidimorph birds. It formerly included the Livingstone's, Schalow's, Knysna, black-billed and Fischer's turacos as subspecies.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guinea Turaco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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