Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

African Red-billed Hornbill

Tockus erythrorhynchus

Description:

This conspicuous bird has mainly whitish underparts and head, and grey upperparts. It has a long tail and a long and curved red bill which lacks a casque. Sexes are similar, but the female has a smaller bill. It is a large bird, at 42 cm long, but is one of the smaller hornbills. It advertises its presence with its noisy accelerating tok-tok-tok-toktoktok call.

Notes:

Seen at the Central Florida Zoo

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 12 years ago

Nice capture,

KarenSaxton
KarenSaxton 12 years ago

These are the cutest birds

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Lovely portrait!

July Llanes
Spotted by
July Llanes

Florida, USA

Spotted on Aug 2, 2009
Submitted on Dec 8, 2011

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

African Grey Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Crowned Hornbill Toco piquirrojo (Northern red-billed hornbill)

Nearby Spottings

Red-shouldered Hawk Guira Cuckoo Amur Leopard Eastern Screech Owl
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team