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Northern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus)

Northern Red-billed Hornbill
Photo: Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Northern Red-billed Hornbill

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

Source: Northern red-billed hornbill on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 48 recordings for this species: 2 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, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.