Bare-faced Go-away bird

Corythaixoides personatus

The Bare-faced Go-away bird is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family.
It is found in two areas of Africa: one in southern Ethiopia, and the other in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. It is named after its distinctive "go-away" call.


Zimmerman Turner & Pearson list the Kenyan and Tanzanian species of this bird as "Corythaixoides personata leopoldi"**