We came across the Western plantain-eater several times during our weeks in Ghana. It is a bird that can be seen at a distance because it is large (50 cm) and often perches in the open, in treetops. Here we came quite close to one individual and the evening light intensified the brown markings on the breast and made them almost purple. The yellow beak shone beautifully and it seems as if the bird at least tried to compete with its four Ghanaian, much more colorful, "cousins" in the Turako family in luminosity ...