| Piping Hornbill | |
|---|---|
| At Guinate Tropical Park, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Genus: | Bycanistes |
| Species: | B. fistulator |
| Binomial name | |
| Bycanistes fistulator (Cassin, 1852) |
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The Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. This black-and-white species is found in humid forest and second growth in Central and West Africa, ranging from Senegal east to Uganda and south to Angola. At about 50 centimetres (20 in) in length, it is the smallest member of the genus Bycanistes.