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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Tauraco leucolophus
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- Tauraco leucolophus
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- Tauraco leucolophus
- taxon common name
- turaco-de-poupa-branca
- litter size
- 2
- egg incubation period
- 22
- short name
- T. leucolophus
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-crested turaco (Tauraco leucolophus) is a bird in the family Musophagidae, a group of African otidimorph birds. The white-crested turaco is native to riverine forest and woodland in a belt between eastern Nigeria and western Kenya. It is a common species with a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of "least concern".
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-crested Turaco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.