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Northern red-billed hornbill
Male, Lake Baringo, Kenya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Bucerotiformes
Family:	Bucerotidae
Genus:	Tockus
Species complex:	Tockus erythrorhynchus complex
Species:	T. erythrorhynchus
Binomial name
Tockus erythrorhynchus (Temminck, 1823)
Resident range
Synonyms
Alophius erythrorhynchus

The northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from southern Mauritania through Somalia and northeast Tanzania. There are five species of red-billed hornbills recognized, but all five were once considered conspecific and some authorities still classify the others as subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Tockus erythrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22725930A94906468. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22725930A94906468.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. "Red-billed Hornbill". www.hbw.com. Handbook of Birds of the World online. Retrieved 12 May 2018.

• Kemp, A.C. and W. Delport. 2002. Comments on the status of subspecies in the red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) complex (Aves: Bucerotidae), with the description of a new taxon endemic to Tanzania. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 39: 1–8.
• Delport, W., A.C. Kemp, and J.W.H. Ferguson. 2004. Structure of an African Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus rufirostris and T. e. damarensis) hybrid zone as revealed by morphology, behavior, and breeding biology. Auk 121: 565–586.

External links

• (Southern) Red-billed hornbill – Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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