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Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator)

Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator)

Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator)


Class: Aves
Family: Bucerotidae
Common Name: Piping Hornbill
Genus: Bycanistes
Species Name: fistulator

About The Piping Hornbill

B. fistulator is found in the lowlands of West Africa from Senegal east to western Nigeria, including Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali,Sierra Leone, Liberia,Cte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin. Occurs in most large forest reserves and can be common in secondary and agricultural stands of tall trees alongside primary forest (del Hoyo et al. 2001).

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2014. Bycanistes fistulator. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Uganda and stops between

Member Lifelists

Africa
World

Sites Where Observed

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