West African pied hornbill
Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Lophoceros
Species:
L. semifasciatus
Binomial name
Lophoceros semifasciatus
(Hartlaub, 1855)
Range of Congo and West Africa pied hornbill

The West African pied hornbill (Lophoceros semifasciatus) is a bird of the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.[2]

The West African pied hornbill is found in West Africa, from south Nigeria to Senegal and Gambia—primarily in secondary forest areas of the Guinean-Congolese forest, and is threatened by forest fragmentation.[3] It was previously considered conspecific with the Congo pied hornbill, and was split in IOC 13.2.[2]

It is a frugivore.[4]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Lophoceros semifasciatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T61612971A118859362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T61612971A118859362.en. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 Gill, F; Donsker, D; Rasmussen, P, eds. (2023). IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2 (inactive 2023-10-23).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2023 (link)
  3. ↑ Mynott, Holly Isabelle; Lee, David Charles; Santillan, Rhea Aranas; Jürgen Schwarz, Christian; Tacud, Benjamin; Fernandez, Arcel Dryden; Kerhoas, Daphne (2021-09-01). "Population assessment and habitat associations of the Visayan Hornbill Penelopides panini in Northwest Panay, Philippines". Avian Research. 12 (1): 67. doi:10.1186/s40657-021-00303-3. PMC 8628822. PMID 34868606.
  4. ↑ Chaves, Patrícia P.; Timóteo, Sérgio; Gomes, Sara; Rainho, Ana (2022-03-25). "Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 38 (4): 199–209. doi:10.1017/s0266467422000062. hdl:10451/52086. ISSN 0266-4674. S2CID 199414721.

Further reading

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  • Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1


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