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{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Tauraco fischeri.jpg
| image_caption = [[Fischer's turaco]]<br/>(''Tauraco fischeri'')
| status = CITES_A2
| status_system = CITES
| taxon = Tauraco
| authority = [[Jan Krzysztof Kluk|Kluk]], 1779
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| type_species = ''Cuculus persa'' ([[Guinea turaco]])
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| synonyms =
}}

'''''Tauraco''''' is a genus of [[turaco]]s. It contains the "typical" or '''green turacos'''; though their plumage is not always green all over, the presence of significant amounts of [[turacoverdin]]-colored [[plumage]] generally sets ''Tauraco'' [[species]] apart from other [[Musophagidae]]. Indeed, as opposed to any other known [[bird]]s, ''Tauraco'' [[turaco]]s are the only living bird [[taxa]] that have any significant green [[pigment]] whatsoever, as the greens of many [[parrot]]s etc. are due to [[structural color]], not pigment. Their genus name was derived from a native [[Niger–Congo languages|West African]] name.<ref name="carn">{{cite book |last1=Carnaby |first1=Trevor |title=Beat about the bush: Birds |date=2008 |publisher=Jacana |location=Johannesburg |isbn=9781770092419 |page=31 |edition=1st}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Tauraco'' was introduced in 1779 by the Polish naturalist [[Jan Krzysztof Kluk]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Kluk | first=Krzysztofa | author-link=Jan Krzysztof Kluk | date=1779 | title=Zwierzat domowych i dzikich, osobliwie kraiowych. Historyi naturalney poczatki i gospodarstwo. Tom. II. Z figurami. O ptastwie | language=Polish | location=Warsaw | publisher=Drukarni J. K. Mości i Rzeczypospolitey u XX. Scholarum Piarum | page=25 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZs5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25 }}</ref> The [[type species]] was later designated as the [[Guinea turaco]].<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1940 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=4 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=3 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476489 }}</ref>

===Species===
The genus contains 13 species.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=3 July 2021 }}</ref>


{{Species table |genus= Tauraco |authority-name=[[Jan Krzysztof Kluk|Kluk]] |authority-year=1779 |species-count=thirteen|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row
|name=[[Guinea turaco]] (also called [[green turaco]])  |binomial=[[Tauraco persa]]
|image=File:Guinea Turaco SMTC.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= West and Central Africa, ranging from Senegal east to DR Congo and south to northern Angola
|range-image=File:Guinea Turaco.png
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
|''T. p. buffoni'' ([[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1819) 
|''T. p. persa'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
|''T. p. zenkeri'' [[Anton Reichenow|Reichenow]], 1896
}}
}}

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|name=[[Livingstone's turaco]] |binomial=[[Tauraco livingstonii]]
|image=File:Tauraco livingstonii 62514592.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Reichenow |authority-year=1891 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Burundi, and is besides found from southern Tanzania to eastern and southern Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, widely in Mozambique and along the subtropical coast of South Africa.
|range-image=File:Tauraco livingstonii map.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name=[[Schalow's turaco]] |binomial=[[Tauraco schalowi]]
|image=File:Tauraco schalowi -Lotherton Hall-8a.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Reichenow|authority-year= 1891 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Zambia, central Angola, the southern DRC, and the uplands of southern Kenya, northern and western Tanzania and western Malawi
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|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name= Knysna turaco|binomial=[[Tauraco corythaix]]
|image=File:Birds of Eden-1471.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Wagler|authority-year= 1827 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= South Africa
|range-image=File:Knysna Turaco's distribution (habitat) 2010 map.png
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name=[[Black-billed turaco]] |binomial=[[Tauraco schuettii]]
|image=File:Tauraco schuettii 237187387.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Cabanis|authority-year= 1879 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.
|range-image=File:Black-Billed Turaco.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name=[[Ross's turaco]] |binomial=[[Tauraco rossae]]
|image=File:012 Ross's turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1852 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Cameroon to South Sudan and western Kenya south to Angola and Botswana 
|range-image=File:Ross's turaco map.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name=Fischer's turaco |binomial=[[Tauraco fischeri]]
|image=File:Tauraco fischeri - 20030516.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Reichenow|authority-year= 1878 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania
|range-image=File:Fisher's Turaco.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= NT
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|name=Yellow-billed turaco |binomial=[[Tauraco macrorhynchus]]
|image=File:Yellow-billed Turaco - Ankasa - Ghana 14 S4E2223.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Fraser |authority-year=1839 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone
|range-image=File:Yellow-Billed Turaco.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name= Hartlaub's turaco|binomial=[[Tauraco hartlaubi]]
|image=File:Tauraco hartlaubi-20081223b.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Fischer & Reichenow |authority-year=1884 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
|range-image= File:Tauraco hartlaubi map.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name= Violet turaco|binomial=[[Tauraco violaceus]]
|image=File:Violet Curaco (18376273779).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Isert |authority-year=1788 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name= White-crested turaco|binomial=[[Tauraco leucolophus]]
|image=File:Tauraco leucolophus -Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, USA-8a.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Heuglin |authority-year=1855 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= eastern Nigeria and western Kenya
|range-image=File:Tauraco leucolophus map.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name=Red-crested turaco |binomial=[[Tauraco erythrolophus]]
|image=File:Red-crested Turaco RWD.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1819 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=Angola
|range-image=  File:Tauraco erythrolophus map.png
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name=Bannerman's turaco |binomial=[[Tauraco bannermani]]
|image=File:Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Bates, GL |authority-year=1923 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  Cameroon
|range-image=File:Tauraco bannermani map.png
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|iucn-status=EN
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{{Species table/end}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Tauraco|''Tauraco''}}
*{{Wikispecies-inline|Tauraco|''Tauraco''}}

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