Piping hornbill

Short description: Species of bird

Piping hornbill

At Birds of Eden aviary, South Africa

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
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

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.

An individual in flight with a palm nut between its bill. LUFASI Nature Park, Lagos, Nigeria

## 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22725962/132234122. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

## External links

* Piping hornbill, sound recordings, xeno-canto

Wikidata ☰ Q746019 entry

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