Wednesday, July 18, 2012

>>Genus Berenicornis >Berenicornis comatus (White-crowned Hornbill)

White-crowned Hornbill



White-crowned Hornbill
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
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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