The striking White Cheeked Turaco has repeatedly been spotted in Deborah Coning's garden, in Grangetown, and she believes it is a pet or from someone's collection. |
The only animals to be found here are blue and Colobus monkeys and a variety of birds including hornbill and turaco. |
The highlight of the day was a brief glimpse of a violet turaco, which flew above our heads, a flash of petrel blue and bright crimson. |
Other Kenyan birds that are at risk from climate warming, like the tufted, brightly colored Hartlaub's turaco, are not yet on watch lists, even though their numbers are severely reduced here. |
The turaco was found to differentiate among the calls of predators and those of competitors. |
Some species, such as the green turaco, are perfectly camouflaged, but when they fly from one tree to the next their wings and sides suddenly flash bright colours. |