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Tauraco leucolophus

Photo by Shailesh Patel
Photo taken: Kongelai, Kenya.

[edit] Identification

Dark blue body, lime green breast, white feathers extend around the face and then up behind the head in the shape of a Mohawk, black above the beak and between eyes, red-bare orbital skin surrounds each eye.

[edit] Distribution

Sub Saharan Africa.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Open woodland, gallery and riverine forests.

[edit] Behaviour

• Diet: Includes fruit, caterpillars, moths, beetles, snails, slugs, termites.
• Breeding: Both sexes incubate the eggs and care for the young.

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