West African pied hornbill | |
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Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Bucerotiformes |
Family: | Bucerotidae |
Genus: | Lophoceros |
Species: | L. semifasciatus
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Binomial name | |
Lophoceros semifasciatus (Hartlaub, 1855)
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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,[citation needed] 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]