Scripps Aviary - Great Blue Turaco

Corythaeola cristata
November 2011

These are wonderful birds. I saw some of them in the Kakamega Forest in Kenya.

The San Diego Zoo featured them prominently in advertising on billboards, etc. when their exhibit opened in the Ituri Forest section of the zoo (are you named after this?). Their prominence seems to have greatly faded at the zoo subsequently, but they remain wonderful birds.

They may not use them in advertising, but the birds themselves were very prominent. I saw three pair at the zoo and another pair at the Safari Park.