Northern red-billed hornbill

The northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from southern Mauritania through Somalia and northeast Tanzania. There are five species of red-billed hornbills recognized, but all five were once considered conspecific and some authorities still classify the others as subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.^[2]

Northern red-billed hornbill
Male, Lake Baringo, Kenya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Bucerotiformes
Family:	Bucerotidae
Genus:	Tockus
Species complex:	Tockus erythrorhynchus complex
Species:	T. erythrorhynchus
Binomial name
Tockus erythrorhynchus (Temminck, 1823)
Resident range
Synonyms
Alophius erythrorhynchus

Northern red-billed hornbill