White-crowned Hornbill
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| White-crowned Hornbill | |
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| male (right) and female (left) | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Genus: | Berenicornis Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Species: | B. comatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Berenicornis comatus (Raffles, 1822) |
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Aceros comatus |
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The White-crowned Hornbill (Berenicornis comatus), also known as the White-crested Hornbill (leading to easy confusion with the African Tropicranus albocristatus), is a species of hornbill found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. It is monotypic within the genus Berenicornis, but rarely the White-crested Hornbill is also included in this genus, whereas the White-crowned Hornbill sometimes is placed in Aceros instead.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2008). Aceros comatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 February 2009.
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