White-crowned Hornbill

White-crowned Hornbill
male (right) and female (left)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Berenicornis
Bonaparte, 1850
Species: B. comatus
Binomial name
Berenicornis comatus
(Raffles, 1822)
Synonyms

Aceros comatus

The White-crowned Hornbill (Berenicornis comatus), also known as the White-crested Hornbill (leading to easy confusion with the African Tropicranus albocristatus), is a species of hornbill found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. It is monotypic within the genus Berenicornis, but rarely the White-crested Hornbill is also included in this genus, whereas the White-crowned Hornbill sometimes is placed in Aceros instead.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2008). Aceros comatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 February 2009.