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.

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