Species profile
Red-crested Turaco
Tauraco erythrolophus
Quick answer
Locally in woodlands and savanna of w Angola
- Scientific name
- Tauraco erythrolophus
- Family
- Musophagidae
- Order
- Musophagiformes
- Genus
- Tauraco
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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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)
- Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata)
- Green Turaco (Tauraco persa)
- Grey Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides concolor)