Dave Taylor's African Safari: Trophic Level II - The Herbivores - Bare-faced Go-away Bird

Dave Taylor's African Safari: Trophic Level II - The Herbivores - Bare-faced Go-away Bird - Page 11

Trophic Level II - The Herbivores
Bare-faced Go-away Bird
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Corythaixoides personata

Length: 50 cm (20")

Status: Locally common

Habitat: The bare-faced go-away bird is found at altitudes up to 1 500 meters (4,920 feet). They are usually encountered in open wooded areas.

Food: The bare-faced go-away bird eats acacia seeds and flowers.

Behavior: The bare-faced go-away bird is common wherever there are enough tall trees. They especially like wooded areas along dried-up river beds.

They are very vocal birds and are constantly calling. Their warning call is a shrill "pia-pia" . Other bird species, hearing this call, will become alert to danger too.

Two to three eggs are laid in a shallow stick nest near the top of an acacia tree. Female go-away birds are fed by the males when they are in the nest. Nesting occurs in the rainy season and typically a female will brood three babies. As soon as two or three weeks after hatching, the fledglings make brief trips from the nest. They are fully fledged by the time they are six weeks old.

Predators: Small carnivores, snakes and birds of prey

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