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White-crested Hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus)

White-crested Hornbill
Photo: derivative work: Snowmanradio (talk) Tropicranus_albocristatus_-Central_Park_Zoo-6a.jpg: Claire H. via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the White-crested Hornbill

The western long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) is a species of hornbill (family Bucerotidae) found in humid forests of West Africa. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus cassini) with the English name "white-crested hornbill".

Source: Western long-tailed hornbill on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 24 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.