turaco
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"The emerald turaco and the hoopoe, both with crown-like head feathers, scored highly," they wrote in their paper in the psychology journal i-Perception.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2021
Lots of these are flashy and colorful, like Peru’s Andean cock-of-the-rock, Angola’s red-crested turaco, Nicaragua’s turquoise-browed motmot.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2016
Her mind ran quickly back to the reddish dust of the road that led to Ziavi, the shrieking of the blue turaco birds at dawn, the taste of her mother’s groundnut stew.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
For this occasion he had bound round his waist the pelt of one of the slaughtered sheep, and had made a head-dress of draggled turaco feathers.
From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French
We were seeing great stuff in Ghana, spectacular turacos and bee-eaters found only in west Africa.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2017
Birds are very numerous; they include various eagles, several kinds of heron, the egret, the marabout, the crane and the pelican; turacos or plantain-eaters, are common, as are other brilliantly plumaged birds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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