touraco , auch: turaco

Extract of an article about Violaceous Touracos on International Touraco Society website.

In French it is known as touraco de Bannerman or touraco doré.

Many of the guides have a good knowledge of bird life in the sanctuary, and are also adept at spotting colobus monkeys and the beautiful blue touraco from a distance.

Vervet monkey, colobus monkey, a prolific variety of water and forest birds including hornbill, touraco, flycatcher, weaver, fish eagle, paradise flycatcher, colourful butterflies are simply everywhere.

This time, a scavenger hunt leads children to the World of Birds, some of which are as exotic as a Malay peacock pheasant, a red-crested touraco and a helmeted currassow.

The Ruspoli's Turaco (Tauraco ruspolii), also known as Prince Ruspoli's Turaco or Touraco De Ruspoli, is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family.

The intricately woven straw hats are topped by an abundance of floppy feathers, white or striped, from such creatures as the guinea fowl, the owl, the eagle, the touraco, the gray parrot, the chicken and the paradise flycatcher.

On the slopes of Kilum Mountain in northwest Cameroon, two British naturalists enlist Oku tribespeople and other villagers to mark boundaries of a 17,000-acre forest that is home to birds like the red-crested Bannerman's touraco, stands of podocarpus trees and other rare species.