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The brown-cheeked hornbill is a large bird, measuring 60 to 70 cm (24 to 28 in) in length. The male has a large yellow, down-curving beak topped by a casque, a hollow structure attached to the upper mandible. The head, upper parts and underparts are black apart from the reddish-brown cheeks, and the white rump, belly and tail. The female is smaller but otherwise similar to the male apart from having a black beak and casque. Its call is a descending series of coarse croaks "rrah...rrah...rrah...rrah" or "rack kack kak-kak".
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When to see the Brown-cheeked Hornbill
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Brown-cheeked Hornbill
The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Congo - Kinshasa, Cameroon.
About the Brown-cheeked Hornbill
The brown-cheeked hornbill is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, plantations, and secondary growth forests. It is threatened by habitat destruction, as timber is harvested and the forests become increasingly fragmented.
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Easily confused with
White-thighed HornbillBycanistes albotibialisThe white-thighed hornbill is a species of hornbill.
Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulatorThe piping hornbill is a bird in the hornbill family.
Silvery-cheeked HornbillBycanistes brevisIt measures 75 to 80 centimetres (30 to 31 in) in length, and has a very large cream-colored casque on the beak.
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