White-crowned Hornbill
White-crowned Hornbill | |
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male (right) and female (left) | |
Conservation status | |
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Coraciiformes |
Family: | Bucerotidae |
Genus: | Berenicornis Bonaparte, 1850 |
Species: | B. comatus |
Binomial name | |
Berenicornis comatus (Raffles, 1822) | |
Synonyms | |
Aceros comatus
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The White-crowned Hornbill (Berenicornis comatus), also known as the White-crested Hornbill (leading to easy confusion with the African Tropicranus albocristatus), is a species of hornbill found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. It is monotypic within the genus Berenicornis, but rarely the White-crested Hornbill is also included in this genus, whereas the White-crowned Hornbill sometimes is placed in Aceros instead.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
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