Grey-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus)

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

Other Names (World)
Grey-cheeked Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Gray-cheeked Hornbill

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
65 - 78 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater, 1870)

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

Range (Guide)

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (69)...)

Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus) [XC62988]
by Rory Nefdt from Kakamega Forest, Kenya (call)

Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus) [XC498511]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Mbam et Djerem National Park, WCS research station for Chimpanzee studies, main camp, Cameroon (flight call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged with Ceratogymna. Subspecies rather poorly differentiated.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

subcylindricus (Sclater, 1870) - Sierra Leone, north-eastern Liberia and Ivory Coast east to western Nigeria (delta of R Niger).
subquadratus Cabanis & Schutt, 1880 - Eastern Nigeria, Cameroon and Central African Republic east to southern Sudan, and south to northern and eastern Zaire, Uganda, south-western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. Also northern Angola.

References
See References.

Files:

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