Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Yellow-casqued Wattled Hornbill

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
70 - 90 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1831)

Habitat
Lowland primary forest. Also logged and secondary forest, riverine forest and oil-palm plantations. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon (B) (NB), C�te dIvoire (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Guinea-bissau (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Mali (B) (NB), Nigeria (B) (NB), Senegal (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB), Togo (B) (NB).

Southern Senegal east to south-western Cameroon.

Population
Estimated population is 13,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
Habitat destruction and fragmentation, hunting are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata) [XC880525]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (call)

Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata) [XC23301]
by Mike Nelson from Gola North, Sierra Leone (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata) - 10 files

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