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 LC    Pale-billed Hornbill* Id (Atlas):
    Lophoceros pallidirostris

Description (10)
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Family
Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Size
51 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia.

Vagrant to Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Pale-billed Hornbill (Lophoceros pallidirostris) [XC822033]
     by Frank Lambert from Mfirisi, Wilaya ya Kilosa, Mkoa wa Morogoro, Tanzania (call)

 
Pale-billed Hornbill (Lophoceros pallidirostris) [XC298546]
     by Frank Lambert from Dzalamyama, rocky ridge s of Forst Lodge, Central Region, Malawi (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with African Grey Hornbill (Lophoceros nasutus). Subspecies occasionally hybridize at western edge of Luangwa Valley, in Zambia.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • pallidirostris (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)   -  EC, central and north-eastern Angola, southern Zaire, and eastern Zambia (west of Luangwa Valley).
  • neumanni Reichenow, 1894   -  Zambia (eastern from Luangwa Valley), Malawi, south-eastern Tanzania and northern Mozambique.



References
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Files:
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