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Wildlife group
Tanzania’s montane and groundwater forests hold a quieter, harder-won list — turacos with copper-pigmented crimson wings, the Narina trogon that turns its green back to you, and hornbills whose wingbeats you hear long before you see them.
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5 species
Bycanistes brevis
A big forest hornbill with a huge cream casque, whose wingbeats sound like a steam train over the canopy.
Read field guideTauraco rossae
A glossy violet-blue turaco with a crimson crest and crimson wing flashes — a highlight of Mahale’s forests.
Read field guideTauraco hartlaubi
A deep green highland turaco with a white eye-line and crimson wings, in the montane forest of Mount Meru.
Read field guideApaloderma narina
A brilliant emerald-and-crimson forest bird that sits so still, facing away, that it is almost impossible to see.
Read field guideGuttera pucherani
A forest guineafowl with a mop of curly black feathers on its head and startling red eyes.
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