Northern Red-billed Hornbill

When to see the Northern Red-billed Hornbill

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Northern Red-billed Hornbill

The map shades 28 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 United Arab Emirates, Oman.

About the Northern Red-billed Hornbill

The northern red-billed hornbill 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.

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Easily confused with

Southern Red-billed HornbillTockus rufirostrisThe sexes are similar, but males are larger and heavier. Von der Decken's HornbillTockus deckeniThis species is a small hornbill with blackish upperparts and mainly whitish underparts and head. Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelasIt is a medium-sized bird, 48–60 cm (19–24 in) in length, 132–242 g (0.29–0.53 lb) in weight and is characterized by a long yellow and down-curved beak.