White-crested turaco

White-crested turaco

At Brookfield Zoo, Illinois
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
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

↑ 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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Turacos (family: Musophagidae)

Genus	Species

Tauraco	Guinea turaco Zenker's Turaco Livingstone's turaco Schalow's turaco Knysna turaco Black-billed turaco White-crested turaco Fischer's turaco Yellow-billed turaco Bannerman's turaco Red-crested turaco Hartlaub's turaco White-cheeked turaco Ruspoli's turaco Purple-crested turaco

Ruwenzorornis	Ruwenzori turaco

Musophaga	Violet turaco Ross's turaco

Corythaixoides	Bare-faced go-away-bird Grey go-away-bird White-bellied go-away-bird

Crinifer	Western plantain-eater Eastern plantain-eater

Corythaeola	Great blue turaco

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