Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis)

Other Scientific Names
Ceratogymna brevis [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
74 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Friedmann, 1929)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Eritrea.

Ethiopian Highlands, south-eastern Sudan and central Kenya south to eastern and southern Tanzania and Malawi; and central Mozambique to south-eastern Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (66)...)

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis) [XC429679]
by Peter Ericsson from Uswun Unga Scarp Fores Nat Forest Reserve, above Uluti, Udzungwa Mts., Tanzania (call)

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis) [XC372271]
by isaac kilusu from Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya (call, song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged with Ceratogymna. In past, northern populations sometimes separated as subspecies omissus.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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