Piping hornbill

Piping hornbill
Individual with palm nut in its bill, at LUFASI Nature Park, Lagos, Nigeria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Bycanistes
Species:
B. fistulator
Binomial name
Bycanistes fistulator
(Cassin, 1850)
At Guinate Tropical Park, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
At Birds of Eden aviary, South Africa

The piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a bird in the hornbill family. This black-and-white species is found in humid forest and second growth in Central and West Africa, ranging from Senegal east to Uganda and south to Angola. At about 50 cm (20 in) in length, it is the smallest member of the genus Bycanistes.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Bycanistes fistulator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22725962A132234122. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22725962A132234122.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.


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