White-crested turaco
White-crested turaco | |
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At Brookfield Zoo, Illinois | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
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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