Hornbills (Bucerotidae)
Grey-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus) - HBW 6, p. 520
French: Calao à joues grises
German: Grauwangen-Hornvogel
Spanish: Cálao Carigrís
Other common names: Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
Taxonomy: Buceros subcylindricus P. L. Sclater, 1870, Ashanti, Ghana.
Genus sometimes merged with Ceratogymna. Races rather poorly differentiated. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- subcylindricus (P. L. Sclater, 1870) - Sierra Leone, NE Liberia and Ivory Coast E to W Nigeria (delta of R Niger).
- subquadratus Cabanis, 1880 - E Nigeria, Cameroon and Central African Republic E to S Sudan, and S to N & E Zaire, Uganda, SW Kenya and NW Tanzania; also N Angola.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male moving in a tree and picking a dry leaf Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp subquadratus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 5 years ago 39 sec 4.5 -
A male in a tree, with close-ups of the head and the tail Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp subquadratus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 5 years ago 33 sec 4.4 -
A male in a tree, preening and calling Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp subquadratus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 5 years ago 38 sec 4.4 -
A male in a tree, calling Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp subquadratus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 5 years ago 56 sec 4 -
A close-up of a bird preening its breast Locality Bronx Zoo, New York City, New York, USA (United States)
Josep del Hoyo 24 June 2005 5 years ago 25 sec 3.8 -
A pair in a tree, flying to another one Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp subquadratus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 August 2006 5 years ago 18 sec 3.6
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Adult male in tree
Locality Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda
Rick Simpson 2 November 2006 2 years ago 4.3 -
Adult female flying
Locality Virunga National Park, Nord-Kivu Province, Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Mlanguy 8 October 2011 4 weeks ago 3.9 -
Adult female.
Locality London Zoo, London, England, Great Britain
Tomasz Doroń 18 July 2009 7 weeks ago 3.3 -
Female sat on the floor
Locality London Zoo, London, England, Great Britain (ssp subquadratus)
Jonathan Beilby 1 February 2009 2 years ago 3 -
Male; also called Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill
Locality Nyungwe Forest National Park, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 22 December 2009 1 year ago 2.6 -
A pair warming up in the early morning sun
Locality Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania
Lorenzo Vinciguerra 26 December 1998 1 year ago 2.4
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a male giving calls Locality Bronx Zoo, New York City, New York, USA (United States)
(ssp subcylindricus)
Michael C 1 April 2009 2 years ago 3
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