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Southern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus rufirostris)

About Southern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus rufirostris)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Bucerotiformes
  • Family: Hornbills

The southern red-billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found from Malawi and Zambia to southern Angola and Transvaal. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.

References[edit]

  • Kemp, A.C. and W. Delport. 2002. Comments on the status of subspecies in the red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) complex (Aves: Bucerotidae), with the deion of a new taxon endemic to Tanzania. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 39: 1–8.
  • Delport, W., A.C. Kemp, and J.W.H. Ferguson. 2004. Structure of an African Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus rufirostris and T. e. damarensis) hybrid zone as revealed by morphology, behavior, and breeding biology. Auk 121: 565-586.

Lifelists

Visits

  • 2001-06-21
    Kafue National Park - Busunga Plains, Zambia
  • 2002-12-08
    Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana