West African pied hornbill

The West African pied hornbill (Lophoceros semifasciatus) is a bird of the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.[2]

West African pied hornbill
Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Lophoceros
Species:
L. semifasciatus
Binomial name
Lophoceros semifasciatus
(Hartlaub, 1855)
Range of Congo and West Africa pied hornbill

The West African pied hornbill is found in West Africa, from south Nigeria to Senegal and Gambia—primarily in secondary forest areas of the Guinean-Congolese forest, and is threatened by forest fragmentation.[3] It was previously considered conspecific with the Congo pied hornbill, and was split in IOC 13.2.[2]

It is a frugivore.[4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Lophoceros semifasciatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T61612971A118859362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T61612971A118859362.en. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  2. Gill, F; Donsker, D; Rasmussen, P, eds. (2023). IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2 (inactive 2023-10-23).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2023 (link)
  3. Mynott, Holly Isabelle; Lee, David Charles; Santillan, Rhea Aranas; Jürgen Schwarz, Christian; Tacud, Benjamin; Fernandez, Arcel Dryden; Kerhoas, Daphne (2021-09-01). "Population assessment and habitat associations of the Visayan Hornbill Penelopides panini in Northwest Panay, Philippines". Avian Research. 12 (1): 67. doi:10.1186/s40657-021-00303-3. PMC 8628822. PMID 34868606.
  4. Chaves, Patrícia P.; Timóteo, Sérgio; Gomes, Sara; Rainho, Ana (2022-03-25). "Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 38 (4): 199–209. doi:10.1017/s0266467422000062. hdl:10451/52086. ISSN 0266-4674. S2CID 199414721.

Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tockus semifasciatus.
  • Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1


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