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Piping hornbill

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Short description: Species of bird

Piping hornbill
At Birds of Eden aviary, South Africa
Scientific classification edit
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Chordata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Aves
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">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

Wikidata ☰ Q746019 entry





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