Northern red-billed hornbill
| Northern red-billed hornbill | |
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| Immature and adult in Kenya | |
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| Calls recorded near Kitale, Kenya | |
| Not recognized (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Subfamily: | Bucerotinae |
| Genus: | Tockus |
| Species: | T. erythrorhynchus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tockus erythrorhynchus Temminck, 1823 | |
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| resident range | |
The northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found from southern Mauritania through Somalia and northeast Tanzania. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.
References
- Kemp, A.C. and W. Delport. 2002. Comments on the status of subspecies in the red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) complex (Aves: Bucerotidae), with the description of a new taxon endemic to Tanzania. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 39: 1–8.
- Delport, W., A.C. Kemp, and J.W.H. Ferguson. 2004. Structure of an African Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus rufirostris and T. e. damarensis) hybrid zone as revealed by morphology, behavior, and breeding biology. Auk 121: 565-586.
External links
- (Southern) Red-billed hornbill - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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