West African pied hornbill

The West African pied hornbill (Lophoceros semifasciatus) is a bird of the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.^[2]

West African pied hornbill
Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Bucerotiformes
Family:	Bucerotidae
Genus:	Lophoceros
Species:	L. semifasciatus
Binomial name
Lophoceros semifasciatus (Hartlaub, 1855)

The West African pied hornbill is found in West Africa, from south Nigeria to Senegal and Gambia—primarily in secondary forest areas of the Guinean-Congolese forest,^{[citation needed]} and is threatened by forest fragmentation.^[3] It was previously considered conspecific with the Congo pied hornbill, and was split in IOC 13.2.^[2]

It is a frugivore.^[4]