Great Blue Turaco

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Great Blue Turaco

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Musophagidae
Genus: Corythaeola
Heine, 1860
Species: C. cristata
Binomial name
Corythaeola cristata
(Vieillot, 1816)

The Great Blue Turaco, Corythaeola cristata, is a turaco, a group of African near-passerines. It is the largest Turaco, generally ranging from 70-75 cm in length with a mass between 822-1231 grams.

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