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Wild diet: Almost exclusively vegetarian, feeding mainly on wild and cultivated fruits and to a lesser extent on foliage, flowers and buds. In addition, caterpillars, moths, beetles, snails, slugs and termites are also eaten by several species, particularly during the breeding season. Throughout the West and Central African forest zone, fruits of the parasol tree (Musango) and waterberry tree (Syzygium) are particularly favoured. Polyalthia and Cissus species along with Musango are a staple food for most forest turaco.

Species dietary differences: Yellow-billed turaco is known to follow raiding swarms of ants. The Great Blue turaco is more frugivorous. Go-away-birds have a more varied diet, not only fruit, but also acacia buds, leaves and pods, and Aloe and Erythrina flowers as well as termite alates.