© GW - monacoeye • Gambia, Feb 2013. All rights reserved

Bird name: Western Red Billed Hornbill
Latin: Tockus kempi
Other: Tockus erythrorhynchus, Red-billed Hornbill, Calao occidental (Fr)
Family: Bucerotidae - Hornbills
Range: Senegal, Gambia, S Mauritania, W Mali. Africa
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Western Red Billed Hornbill is a new taxon split from Red-billed Hornbill. Frequently seen in Gambia.

Below, Western Red-billed Hornbill
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© André S - monacoeye • Lake Manyara, Tanzania • Oct 2009 • All rights reserved

Bird name: African Grey Hornbill
Latin: Tockus nasutus
Other: Calao à bec noir (Fr), Toco gris africano (Es), bico-de-serra-cinzento (Pt), Grautoko (De), Grijze tok (Nl)
Family: Bucerotidae - Hornbills
Range: Sub-saharan Africa, incl Tanzania, Gambia. Arabia
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Nice shot above of a female African Grey Hornbill at Lake Manyara in Tanzania, by André.

The female African Grey Hornbill is distinguished from the male by the red on her bill.

The male African Grey Hornbill’s bill is black, with a small white patch on the upper mandible.

Below, male African Grey Hornbill at Marakissa, the Gambia, Feb 2013. ©
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© Tom C - monacoeye • Tanzania

Bird name: Von Decken’s Hornbill
Latin: Tockus deckeni
Other: Calao de Decken (Fr), Toco de Von der Decken (Es), Decken-Toko (De), Von der deckens tok (Nl)
Family: Bucerotidae - Hornbills
Range: East Africa, incl Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya etc
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Above, Tom’s photo of a male Von Decken’s Hornbill in the Serengeti in Tanzania. The male has red on the bill whereas the female, below, has a black bill. The range of Von Decken’s Hornbill extends from Tanzania into other parts of east Africa.

The Hornbills sometimes get their own 56-species order, the Bucerotiformes. Otherwise they are placed in the Coraciiformes with Kingfishers, Rollers and Bee-eaters. Superb birds!More photos...

© GW - monacoeye • Gambia, Feb 2013 • All rights reserved

Bird name: African Pied Hornbill
Latin: Tockus fasciatus
Other: Calao longibande (Fr), Toco pío (Es), bico-de-serra-preto (Pt), Elstertoko (De), bonte tok (Nl)
Family: Bucerotidae - Hornbills
Range: Equatorial Africa: Gambia to Uganda to Angola
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Just one African Pied Hornbill from the Gambia - seen here at Lamin Rice Fields.More photos...

© Tom C - monacoeye • Tanzania

Bird name: Southern Ground Hornbill
Latin: Bucorvus leadbeateri
Other: Bucorve du Sud (Fr), cálao terrícola (Es), Südliche Hornrabe (De), zuidelijke hoornraaf (Nl)
Family: Bucorvidae - Ground Hornbills
Range: N Angola, N Angola, N South Africa to Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania
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The Southern Ground-Hornbill is the largest species of Hornbill - over a metre in length. Photographed above by Tom in Tanzania and below, in the Serengeti, by André.More photos...

© AS/monacoeye • Serengeti • Oct 2009 • All rights reserved

Bird name: Silvery Cheeked Hornbill
Latin: Bycanistes brevis
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Family: Bucerotidae - Hornbills
Range: Africa
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Fantastic looking Silvery-cheeked Hornbills, seen here feeding at Lake Manyara in Tanzania, by André.

They have a huge cream-coloured casque on the bill (males’, above, is larger) dark plumage with a white stripe running down the back.

In “more photos” you can see how delicately they can hold a small fruit in that huge bill of theirs.

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098 Bucerotidae - Hornbills - IOC 2.5 - 2010

The hornbills (Bucerotidae) and ground hornbills (Bucorvidae) sister taxa related to hoopoes and wood hoopoes

Anorrhinus tickelli - Tickell's Brown Hornbill - S Burma, SW Thailand - New name
Anorrhinus austeni - Austen's Brown Hornbill - Assam to SW China and Indochina. Asia - Split from A. tickelli
Anorrhinus galeritus - Bushy-crested Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo

Tockus alboterminatus - Crowned Hornbill - E, SC, SE Africa
Tockus bradfieldi - Bradfield's Hornbill - SC Africa
Tockus fasciatus - African Pied Hornbill - C, W Africa
Tockus hemprichii - Hemprich's Hornbill - E Africa
Tockus pallidirostris - Pale-billed Hornbill - SC, SE Africa
Tockus nasutus - African Grey Hornbill - Widespread Africa
Tockus monteiri - Monteiro's Hornbill - SW Africa
Tockus erythrorhynchus - Northern Red-billed Hornbill - S Mauritania through Somalia to NE Tanzania - New name
Tockus damarensis - Damara Red-billed Hornbill - SW Angola, N Namibia, W Botswana. Africa - Split from T. erythrorhynchus
Tockus rufirostris - Southern Red-billed Hornbill - Malawi and Zambia to S Angola and Transvaal. Africa - Split from T. erythrorhynchus
Tockus ruahae - Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill - C Tanzania - new taxon in Red-billed Hornbill complex
Tockus kempi - Western Red-billed Hornbill - Senegambia to S Mauritania and W Mali. Africa - new taxon in Red-billed Hornbill complex
Tockus leucomelas - Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill - S Africa
Tockus flavirostris - Northern Yellow-billed Hornbill - E Africa
Tockus deckeni - Von der Decken's Hornbill - E Africa
Tockus jacksoni - Jackson's Hornbill - E Africa
Tockus hartlaubi - Black Dwarf Hornbill - C, W Africa
Tockus camurus - Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill - C, W Africa

Tropicranus albocristatus - White-crested Hornbill - C, W Africa

Ocyceros griseus - Malabar Grey Hornbill - SW India
Ocyceros gingalensis - Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill - Sri Lanka
Ocyceros birostris - Indian Grey Hornbill - India, Nepal

Anthracoceros coronatus - Malabar Pied Hornbill - India, Sri Lanka
Anthracoceros albirostris - Oriental Pied Hornbill - Widespread Asia
Anthracoceros marchei - Palawan Hornbill - Philippines
Anthracoceros malayanus - Black Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo
Anthracoceros montani - Sulu Hornbill - Sulu Archipelago

Buceros bicornis - Great Hornbill - W India, Himalayas to Sumatra
Buceros rhinoceros - Rhinoceros Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas
Buceros hydrocorax - Rufous Hornbill - Philippines

Rhinoplax vigil - Helmeted Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo

Penelopides exarhatus - Sulawesi Hornbill - Sulawesi
Penelopides panini - Tarictic Hornbill - Philippines
Penelopides manillae - Luzon Hornbill - N Philippines - Split from P. panini
Penelopides mindorensis - Mindoro Hornbill - Mindoro, Philippines - Split from P. panini
Penelopides affinis - Mindanao Hornbill - S Philippines - Split from P. panini
Penelopides samarensis - Samar Hornbill - C Philippines - Split from P. panini

Berenicornis comatus - White-crowned Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo

Aceros nipalensis - Rufous-necked Hornbill - NE India to W Thailand & NW Vietnam
Aceros cassidix - Knobbed Hornbill - Sulawesi
Aceros corrugatus - Wrinkled Hornbill - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo
Aceros waldeni - Walden's Hornbill - Philippines
Aceros leucocephalus - Writhed Hornbill - Philippines

Rhyticeros plicatus - Blyth's Hornbill - Moluccas to Solomon Islands
Rhyticeros narcondami - Narcondam Hornbill - Andaman Islands
Rhyticeros subruficollis - Plain-pouched Hornbill - Burma to Malay Peninsula
Rhyticeros undulatus - Wreathed Hornbill - NE India to Borneo & Java
Rhyticeros everetti - Sumba Hornbill - Lesser Sundas

Bycanistes fistulator - Piping Hornbill - W, C Africa
Bycanistes bucinator - Trumpeter Hornbill - SC, SE Africa
Bycanistes cylindricus - Brown-cheeked Hornbill - W Africa
Bycanistes albotibialis - White-thighed Hornbill - C Africa
Bycanistes subcylindricus - Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill - C, W Africa
Bycanistes brevis - Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - E, SE Africa

Ceratogymna atrata - Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill - C, W Africa
Ceratogymna elata - Yellow-casqued Wattled Hornbill - W Africa