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| The Violet Turaco, also called the Violaceous Turaco, comes from Angola. It has iridescent blue-violet plumage, an orange beak, yellow faceshield, crimson crown and red under-wings in flight. | |
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| The Violet Turaco looks like it is wearing an orange dust-mask over a yellow beak, tied with a white band. | |
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| It has all the features of typical Turacos: semi-zygodactyl feet, true colour plumage pigment, chicks with clawed wings and flock members which help with childcare. | ||
| (Lady) Ross's Turaco | ||
| Tauraco rossae | ||
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Lady
Ross's Turaco, sometimes called just Ross's Turaco, comes from
Central and East Africa. It has dark blue-black plumage, a crimson crest and under-wings, white eye-rings and a pale yellow bill without the orange "dustmask" of its Violet cousin. |
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![]() Red-crested Turaco |
![]() Fischer's Turaco |
![]() Hartlaub's Turaco |
![]() White-cheeked Turaco |
![]() Livingstone's Turaco |
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