Brown-cheeked Hornbill | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Coraciiformes |
Family: | Bucerotidae |
Genus: | Bycanistes |
Species: | B. cylindricus |
Binomial name | |
Bycanistes cylindricus (Temminck, 1824) |
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Synonyms | |
Ceratogymna cylindricus (Temminck, 1824) |
The Brown-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes cylindricus) is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations , and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.