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Piping hornbill

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Piping Hornbill
At Birds of Eden aviary, South Africa
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B. fistulator
Binomial name
Bycanistes fistulator
(Cassin, 1852)
At Guinate Tropical Park, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

The Piping Hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a hornbill. 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.

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