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Livingston's turaco?

Can anybody give a positive ID as to whether this is a Livingston's turaco or a different species.

Zootierliste lists it as a former holding, don't know when the species left the collection.
Can anybody give a positive ID as to whether this is a Livingston\'s turaco or a different species.

Zootierliste lists it as a former holding, don\'t know when the species left the collection.
 
Not 100% certain but I'd say green turaco, the wings look dark and the white tip on the crest isn't very prominent.

They keep green turaco, I saw my first one there this year.
 
Not 100% certain but I'd say green turaco, the wings look dark and the white tip on the crest isn't very prominent.

They keep green turaco, I saw my first one there this year.

Thanks Bongorob :) - I see what you mean, didn't realise they were kept at Cotswold as they don't seem to be listed on zootierliste.

I seem to remember you trying to photograph a turaco that was new to you when we went in April, this and the Lady Ross's are the only two turacos I photographed and I seem to remember photographing the one that was new to you, so green would make much more sense :)
 
I've just been informed by a keeper of turacos (and former enthusiatic ZooChatter), that the photo is T.p.persa.

"Could you pass on the message that this is a green crested Turaco (Tauraco persa persa) it isn't buffoni as it has a white stripe under the eye where buffoni has green..."

I checked in Handbook of the Birds of the World volume V, and the illustrations show T.p.persa with a white stripe under the eye, and T.p.buffoni with a green stripe under the eye.
T.p.persa http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3u1175xg1qzs4d0o1_r1_500.png
T.p.buffoni http://i.pbase.com/o6/08/679208/1/126154552.n3Qy3HF6.DSC01680.jpg
 

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