Species profile
Great Blue Turaco
Corythaeola cristata
Quick answer
Lowland rainforests of w and central Africa
- Scientific name
- Corythaeola cristata
- Family
- Musophagidae
- Order
- Musophagiformes
- Genus
- Corythaeola
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Great Blue Turaco in your journal
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Related species in Musophagidae
- Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani)
- Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii)
- Brown-faced Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides personatus)
- Eastern Plantain-eater (Crinifer zonurus)
- Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri)
- Green Turaco (Tauraco persa)
- Grey Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides concolor)
- Hartlaub's Turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi)