Female © Kris Blachowiak
Male © Eric Hughes
Female © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
Male and female © Forest Botial-Jarvis
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Male and female © Adriana Dinu

Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

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Identification

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A fairly small, slim, long-tailed hornbill. Note the red bill, the pink or red bare facial skin, and the heavily spotted back. The eye is dark in most of the range, but birds in some parts of East Africa show a pale eye. White patches on the wing and outer tail are conspicuous in flight. Found in savanna and thornscrub. Similar to Western and Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbills, but separated from both by the pale rather than black bare skin around the eye. Call is a series of clucks that starts with single notes, then becomes louder and more emphatic, with doubled notes.

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