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Northern red-billed hornbill

Northern red-billed hornbill

Species of bird

The northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from southern Mauritania through Somalia and northeast Tanzania. There are five species of red-billed hornbills recognized, but all five were once considered conspecific and some authorities still classify the others as subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.[2]

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Northern red-billed hornbill

References

  1. [1]
    BirdLife International (2016). "Tockus erythrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22725930A94906468. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22725930A94906468.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    "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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