Hartlaub's Turaco
Tauraco hartlaubi
Southern slopes of Mount Kenya, Kimunye, Kenya. May 2017. Feeding on fruit of
Turacos like this Hartlaub's subsist especially on the fruit of trees. By offering a food source to birds, the trees get their seeds dispersed to new habitat. Seeds that pass through the gut while retaining their viability can be carried by wing to distant locales.
Musophagidae -- Turaco Family
Books:
- Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Zimmerman et al.
- Birds of East Africa by Stevenson and Fanshawe