Southern red-billed hornbill | |
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Male, Chobe National Park, Botswana | |
Female in the Kruger National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Bucerotiformes |
Family: | Bucerotidae |
Genus: | Tockus |
Species complex: | Tockus erythrorhynchus complex |
Species: | T. rufirostris
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Binomial name | |
Tockus rufirostris (Sundevall, 1850)
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The southern red-billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae, which is native to the savannas and dryer bushlands of southern Africa. It is replaced by a near-relative, the Damara red-billed hornbill, in the arid woodlands of western Namibia. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered conspecific.