Western red-billed hornbill
Western red-billed hornbill | |
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male in Gambia | |
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Bucerotiformes |
Family: | Bucerotidae |
Subfamily: | Bucerotinae |
Genus: | Tockus |
Species: | T. kempi |
Binomial name | |
Tockus kempi Tréca & Érard, 2000 | |
The western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from Senegal and Gambia to southern Mauritania and western Mali. There are five species of red-billed hornbills generally recognized now, but all five were once considered conspecific. Some authorities still categorize the group as Tockus erythrorhynchus with the remaining four as its subspecies[1]
- male, The Gambia
- Male at a nest entrance in The Gambia
References
- ↑ "Red-billed Hornbill". www.hbw.com. Handbook of Birds of the World online. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
- 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.
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