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Western red-billed hornbill

Western red-billed hornbill
male in Gambia
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Subfamily: Bucerotinae
Genus:
Species: T. kempi
Binomial name
Tockus kempi
Tréca & Érard, 2000

The western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from Senegal and Gambia to southern Mauritania and western Mali. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.

male, The Gambia

Male at a nest entrance in The Gambia


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