White-crested Turaco
Tauraco leucolophus(Heuglin, MT, 1855)
English (US) White-crested Turaco
The White-crested Turaco (Tauraco leucolophus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Musophagidae (Turacos) in the order Musophagiformes.
Range: far southeastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon eastward to western and southern South Sudan, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, and western KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tauraco leucolophus
- Family
- Musophagidae (Turacos)
- Order
- Musophagiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-crested Turaco
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1855)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Corythaix leucolophus
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1855)
- Type locality
- Bahr el Abiad, Upper White Nile.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 3, no.13 p.65
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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