Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus flavirostris)

Other Names (World)
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Yellow-billed Hornbill

Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
51 cm

First Described (Guide)
(R�ppell, 1835)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland and forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia south to south-eastern Sudan, north-eastern Uganda, Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus flavirostris) [XC172864]
by Andrew Spencer from Qori Jabley area, Woqooyi Galbeed, Somaliland, Somalia (call)

Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus flavirostris) [XC215425]
by id from Afar Plains, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes considered to form a superspecies with Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas), and in past usually treated as conspecific, but differs in voice and bare-part colours. Both are closely related to Von der Decken's Hornbill (Tockus deckeni), and also, more distantly, to Monteiro's Hornbill (Tockus monteiri) and Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus), based on similar calls and behaviour, and DNA studies. Slightly smaller birds from north-eastern Somalia described as subspecies somaliensis, mainly on basis of orange markings on bill, but this character apparently variable. Further study is required.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus flavirostris) - 10 files

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