Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Musophagiformes > Musophagidae > Tauraco > Tauraco leucolophusTauraco leucolophus (White-crested Turaco)The white-crested turaco (Tauraco leucolophus) is a turaco, a group of near-passerines. The white-crested turaco is native to riverine forest and woodland in a belt between eastern Nigeria and western Kenya. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 20.5252 EDGE Score: 3.06923 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 214 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 70 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | | Incubation [3] | 22 days |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Cameroonian Highlands forests |
Cameroon, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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East African montane forests |
Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Guinean forest-savanna mosaic |
Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Saharan flooded grasslands |
Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic |
Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Ajai Wildlife Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Ashana |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Bamingui-Bangoran National Park complex |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Bandingilo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Bengangai |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Bénoué National Park |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Bozoum |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Budongo Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Bugoma Central Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Faro National Park |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Garamba National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A3 |
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Gashaka-Gumti National Park |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Imatong mountains |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Juba |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Kidepo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Kidepo Valley National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Manovo: Gounda: St Floris National Park complex |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Mbam Djerem National Park |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon National Park |
Uganda |
A2, A3 |
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Mount Kei Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A3 |
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Mount Moroto Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Otzi Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A3 |
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Murchison Falls National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Ngaoundaba Ranch |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngel-Nyaki Forest Reserve |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nimule |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Semliki reserves |
Uganda |
A1 |
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Southern National Park |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Tchabal Mbabo |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 5Guild of Frugivores on three fruit-producing tree species Polyscias fulva, Syzyguim guineensis subsp. bamensdae and Pouteria altissima) in Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve, a Montane Forest Ecosystem in Nigeria, Ihuma Jerome, Hazel Chapman, Tella Iyiola, Akosim Calistus, Stephen Goldson, Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2011) Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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