Pajarita wrote:Ohhhhh, turacos are BEAUTIFUL! Which kind did you have?
We had a single that was a Green or a guinea? Many of the file pictures of the Fauna guy were ones in which he was holding this bird. We named her Cleopatra, because of her eyes.
We also had a pair of White Crested, maybe? Not sure. I just looked at all 23 species and I really don't know.
I know that they all like to get to the ground and RUN!
We really try to stick to parrots. There was a bit of a learning curve with the turacos. They have such a jungle-sounding call! it's so neat! It sounds like a huge bird, or a medium primate. They did well, and they seemed okay, but we were able to find a Turaco place for the pair (I don't remember where...Texas maybe. They weren't shipped as we never ship birds. A volunteer and someone else drove them down there). The green one was adopted by a volunteer who already had a Turaco. She she knows what she's doing, so it was a perfect landing spot for Cleopatra.
So the turacos are gone, the finches are gone, so I think we are back to all parrots. I mean, lories are more butterfly than parrot, but technically they're still parrots.