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White-cheeked Turaco
Menelikornis leucotis (Rüppell, 1835)
Musophagidae — Turacos
White-cheeked Turaco, Menelikornis leucotis, is a bird of the Musophagidae family that breeds in south-east Sudan, Eritrea and western to central Ethiopia. It lives in highland Podocarpus and juniper forests across this range. The species is also known from South Sudan. It is the most frequently kept turaco in captivity. Two subspecies are recognised, with one in Eritrea, Ethiopia and south-eastern South Sudan, and the other in south-central Ethiopia and the far west of Somalia.
- Order
- Musophagiformes
- Family
- Musophagidae — Turacos
- Breeding range
- Africa: se Sudan, Eritrea, w, c Ethiopia
