| Red-crested Turaco | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Musophagidae |
| Genus: | Tauraco |
| Species: | T. erythrolophus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tauraco erythrolophus (Vieillot, 1819) |
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The Red-crested Turaco, Tauraco erythrolophus, is a turaco, a group of African near-passerines. It is a fruit-eating bird endemic to western Angola. Its call sounds somewhat like a jungle monkey.
This species was used in the movie, The Parent Trap (1998 film), in a surreal scene where the prospective step-mother, afloat on her air-mattress in mid-lake, is awakened by the bird flying in and landing on her body.
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