Eastern Plantain-eater

When to see the Eastern Plantain-eater

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Eastern Plantain-eater

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Nigeria, Sudan.

About the Eastern Plantain-eater

The eastern plantain-eater also known as the eastern grey plantain-eater, is a large member of the turaco family, a group of large arboreal near-passerine birds restricted to Africa.

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Easily confused with

Bare-faced Go-away-birdCrinifer personatusThe sexes are similar, other than the female's green beak. White-bellied Go-away-birdCrinifer leucogasterThis species averages 51 cm (20") in length. Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscatorThe western plantain-eater, also known as the grey plantain-eater or western grey plantain-eater, is a large member of the turaco family, a group of large arboreal near-passerine birds restricted to Africa.