Congo Pied Hornbill (Lophoceros fasciatus)

Other Names (World)
Congo Pied Hornbill, African Pied Hornbill, Allied Hornbill, Pied Hornbill(!), Zande Hornbill, Black-and-white-tailed Hornbill

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
48 - 55 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1811)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to Mauritania.

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 (55)...)

African Pied Hornbill (Lophoceros fasciatus) [XC34028]
by Ole Jakobsen and Niels Krabbe from Abuko Nature Reserve, Gambia (song)

African Pied Hornbill (Lophoceros fasciatus) [XC745688]
by Alain Verneau from New Debiso, Bia, Western Region, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Crowned Hornbill (Lophoceros alboterminatus) and Bradfield's Hornbill (Lophoceros bradfieldi) and closely related also to Hemprich's Hornbill (Lophoceros hemprichii). All have similar calls and displays.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

semifasciatus (Hartlaub, 1855) - Senegambia east to south-western Nigeria. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, West African Pied Hornbill (Lophoceros semifasciatus).
fasciatus (Shaw, 1811) - South-eastern Nigeria to southern Chad and east to Uganda, south to northern Angola and south-central Zaire.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Congo Pied Hornbill (Lophoceros fasciatus) - 10 files

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