Great Blue Turaco – Corythaeola cristata  

The great blue turaco is the largest species of Turaco.  This African bird, close cuckoos, is the only species of its genus .

Its plumage is bluish green, it has a tuft of 5 cm wide and its beak is yellow to red tip. It measures 65 to 75 cm.

It comes from the tropical forests of West and Central Africa .

It lives in the treetops, flies not very much and sometimes goes down to earth.It feeds on fruits and seeds and lives alone or in small groups.

It lays a single egg, greenish white, incubated for 20 days. The young born, covered with brown-black downs and acquires its feathers to 4 or 5 weeks.

This species is not considered threatened.