The White-crested turaco is one of several colorful turacos. In addition to the white head and crest (which gave the bird its name), it has a distinctive black forehead patch, red eye ring and yellow beak. The back is green, and this color changes to violet further down. This is what you usually see when the bird is sitting still. When it flies up, you can see, as on many turacos, a bright red area on the wing. In this picture, you can actually glimpse the red area because the bird is stretching its right wing slightly! This turaco lives in forests near water and feeds mainly on berries and fruits, but sometimes also eats flowers and invertebrates such as snails. It occurs in central Africa, in a boomerang-shaped belt from eastern Nigeria to westernmost Kenya.