White-crested turaco

White-crested turaco
At Brookfield Zoo, Illinois
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Musophagiformes
Family:Musophagidae
Genus:Tauraco
Species: T. leucolophus
Binomial name
Tauraco leucolophus
(Heuglin, 1855)

The white-crested turaco (Tauraco leucolophus) is a turaco, a group of near-passerines. The white-crested turaco is native to riverine forest and woodland in a belt between eastern Nigeria and western Kenya.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Tauraco leucolophus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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