One of the 8 turacos on WAnimals
Birds · Musophagiformes · Musophagidae
Ross's Turaco
Tauraco rossae
Least Concern
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
Ross's turaco is a spectacular bird of deep bluish violet with a yellow face and a crimson crest. It lives in noisy groups in the gallery forests of Central Africa, feeding on fruit, which it swallows whole. Turacos have two pigments that exist in no other bird family in the world, responsible for their greens and their reds, and which in this species produce a contrast that cannot be mistaken for anything else.
Weight
300 g – 450 g
Size
50 cm – 54 cm
Life expectancy
20 years
