West African pied hornbill

West African pied hornbill
Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 (Lophoceros semifasciatus) is a bird of the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.^[2]

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]

References

1. BirdLife International (2017). "Lophoceros semifasciatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T61612971A118859362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T61612971A118859362.en. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
2. Gill, F; Donsker, D; Rasmussen, P, eds. (2023). IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2 (inactive 1 November 2024).
3. Mynott, Holly Isabelle; Lee, David Charles; Santillan, Rhea Aranas; Jürgen Schwarz, Christian; Tacud, Benjamin; Fernandez, Arcel Dryden; Kerhoas, Daphne (2021-09-01). "Population assessment and habitat associations of the Visayan Hornbill Penelopides panini in Northwest Panay, Philippines". Avian Research. 12 (1): 67. doi:10.1186/s40657-021-00303-3. PMC 8628822. PMID 34868606.
4. Chaves, Patrícia P.; Timóteo, Sérgio; Gomes, Sara; Rainho, Ana (2022-03-25). "Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 38 (4): 199–209. doi:10.1017/s0266467422000062. hdl:10451/52086. ISSN 0266-4674. S2CID 199414721.

Further reading

• Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1