Brown-cheeked hornbill

Brown-cheeked hornbill
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae/Bucorvidae
Genus: Bycanistes
Species: B. cylindricus
Binomial name
Bycanistes cylindricus
(Temminck, 1824)
Synonyms

Ceratogymna cylindricus (Temminck, 1824)

The brown-cheeked hornbill (Bycanistes cylindricus) is a species of hornbill in the Bucorvidae 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.

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