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For Inquiries Contact with me • [email protected] • NAME : tanvir • (Facebook ) : / tanviradvent. . • CONTACT: 01777007721 • Disclaimer: • Don't Download Copy Anything From This Channel. Its a Cyber Crime. • Turaco, (order Musophagiformes), also spelled touraco, also called lourie or plantain-eater, any of about 18 species in six genera of colourful, fruit-eating African birds. The green and iridescent turacos (Tauraco, Musophaga, and Corythaeola) are primarily residents of dense broad-leaved evergreen forest; the grayer forms (Crinifer), most of which are called go-away birds (because the calls of some are “g’way, g’way”), are found in more open woodland, including savanna. • The red colour in the wings of white-crested turacos (Tauraco leucolophus) is caused by turacin, a pigment derived from porphyrin. • The red colour in the wings of white-crested turacos (Tauraco leucolophus) is caused by turacin, a pigment derived from porphyrin. • Kenneth Fink—Root Resources/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. • Turacos are remarkable for their coloration. Some are predominantly gray, brown, and white, but the 10 species of the genus Tauraco and the 2 species of Musophaga possess a unique and beautiful red pigment, turacin, and a green pigment, turacoverdin. The former occurs in the wing feathers of all 12 species and in the crests of a few; turacoverdin is found in the body plumage of these species and some of Corythaixoides. Most turacos also have prominent head crests. • • Long-tailed and short-winged, turacos vary in size from approximately 35 cm (14 inches) in the predominantly green and blue species of Tauraco to about 70 cm (28 inches) in the great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata). They spend their time entirely in trees in search of fruit, taking a few invertebrates. • • • They are social, moving in small, noisy flocks, but they nest solitarily. The nest is made up of a flat platform of twigs, placed in trees often at considerable height. In forest species the male walks or leaps among branches with his tail fanned and with his wings half-spread, displaying the crimson wing patches during courtship. Courtship feeding has also been observed, the male regurgitating fruit pulp or presenting whole fruit to the female. Two or three white eggs are laid, producing young with thick down that are able to clamber about at an early age aided by well-developed claws on their wings. • Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. • Subscribe today • The calls of turacos are described as barking or laughing notes given in a series. A few species utter softer cooing notes. • • This article was most recently revised and updated by Richard Pallardy, Research Editor. • LEARN MORE in these related Britannica articles: • lesser flamingo • bird: Annotated classification • Musophagiformes (turacos) 18 species in 1 family, colourful plumage, fruit-eating; length 35–70 cm (14–28 inches); Africa. Order Cuculiformes (cuckoos and allies) 141 species in 2 families including anis,… • Rivoli's hummingbird • coloration: Porphyrins • The African turacos (Musophagidae) secrete a copper salt of uroporphyrin III into their wing feathers. This deep-red pigment, turacin, is readily leached from the feathers by water containing even traces of alkali. The green plumes of these birds owe their colour to the presence of turacoverdin, a… • lesser flamingo • bird • Bird, (class Aves), any of the more than 10,400 living species unique in having feathers, the major characteristic that distinguishes them from all other animals.
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