West African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros semifasciatus / Tockus fasciatus

West African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros semifasciatus
(aka African Pied Hornbill Tockus fasciatus)

African Pied Hornbill, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Kakum National Park, Ghana
May 2011

The West African Pied Hornbill has been split from Congo Pied Hornbill L. fasciatus by the HBW and Birdlife International Checklist. It is distributed in tropical West Africa from Senegal in West Africa to Nigeria in the east. It is found in forested or wooded habitats where it feeds mainly on insects and fruit.

Its song is a series of high-pitched whistles.

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