Hornbills (Bucerotidae)
Long-tailed Hornbill (Tropicranus albocristatus) - HBW 6, p. 496
French: Calao à huppe blanche
German: Weißschopf-Hornvogel
Spanish: Cálao Crestiblanco
Other common names: Crowned(!)/White-crowned(!)/White-crested Hornbill
Taxonomy: Buceros albo-cristatus Cassin, 1848, St Paul’s River, Liberia.
Often placed in genus Tockus, or occasionally in Berenicornis, but appears to be sufficiently distinct in behaviour and voice, as well as in some aspects of morphology, to merit treatment in monospecific genus. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- albocristatus (Cassin, 1848) - S Sierra Leone, S Guinea, Liberia and W Ivory Coast.
- macrourus (Bonaparte, 1850) - E Ivory Coast to Benin.
- cassini (Finsch, 1903) - Nigeria E to W Uganda, S to N Angola.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A close-up of a male perched. Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 2 years ago 29 sec 3.3 -
A close-up of a male with a worm in the bill. Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (ssp albocristatus)
Josep del Hoyo 21 March 2008 2 years ago 32 sec 3.3 -
A bird in the canopy 3 Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrourus)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 1 year ago 29 sec 3.3 -
In the canopy 5 Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrourus)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 1 year ago 38 sec 3 -
A bird in the canopy 1 Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrourus)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 1 year ago 41 sec 3 -
A bird in the canopy 2 Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macrourus)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 1 year ago 28 sec 3
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A close-up of a adult bird.
Locality Parrot Park (NOP), Veldhoven, North Brabant Province, Netherlands (ssp albocristatus)
Tomasz Doroń 25 June 2009 18 weeks ago 3.3 -
Adult bird sitting on the branch.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (ssp albocristatus)
Tomasz Doroń 15 October 2011 8 weeks ago 3 -
A bird high in the canopy carrying a caterpillar prey item
Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp macourus)
Ian Fulton 3 March 2009 2 years ago 3 -
A close-up of a male.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 2 years ago 3 -
A male with a worm in the bill.
Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (ssp albocristatus)
Josep del Hoyo 21 March 2008 2 years ago 2.5
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