Western red-billed hornbill
| Western red-billed hornbill | |
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| 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 Bucerotidae family. It is found from Senegal and Gambia to southern Mauritania and western Mali. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.
Male at a nest in The Gambia
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.
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