Friday, July 20, 2012

>Bycanistes fistulator (Piping Hornbill)

Piping Hornbill


Piping Hornbill
At Birds of Eden aviary, South Africa
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Coraciiformes
Family:Bucerotidae
Genus:Bycanistes
Species:B. fistulator
Binomial name
Bycanistes fistulator
(Cassin, 1852)

At Guinate Tropical Park, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain










The Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a hornbill in the Bucerotidae 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 centimetres (20 in) in length, it is the smallest member of the genus Bycanistes.

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