Western Long-tailed Hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus)

Other Scientific Names
Tockus albocristatus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Other Names (World)
Western Long-tailed Hornbill, White-crested Hornbill, Long-tailed Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill(!), White-crowned Hornbill(!)

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
70 - 80 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1848)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (21)...)

White-crested Hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) [XC531739]
by Marc Languy from Ouesso, Sangha, Congo (Brazzaville) (song)

White-crested Hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) [XC671644]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (uncertain)

Subspecies
Often placed in genus Tockus, or occasionally in Berenicornis, but appears to be sufficiently distinct in behaviour and voice, as well as in some aspects of morphology, to merit treatment in monospecific genus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

albocristatus (Cassin, 1848) - Southern Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Liberia and western Ivory Coast.
macrourus (Bonaparte, 1850) - Eastern Ivory Coast to Benin.
cassini (Finsch, 1903) - Nigeria east to western Uganda, south to northern Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill (Horizocerus cassini).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Western Long-tailed Hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) - 10 files

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