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Berenicornis comatus is a large hornbill, reaching a length of 83–102 cm (33–40 in) and a weight of 1.3–1.5 kg (2.9–3.3 lb). Females are smaller than males. The plumage is black and white. The head, neck, breast and tail are white, while the remaining plumage is black. It has white crown feathers erected in a crest (hence the common name).
Female great hornbill Hornbills are birds in the families Bucerotidae and Bucorvidae. There are currently 62 extant species of hornbills recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union, two in Bucorvidae and 60 in Bucerotidae. Many species of fossil hornbills are known from the Miocene onwards; however, their exact number and taxonomy are unsettled due to ongoing discoveries. Conventions ...
The western long-tailed hornbill was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus cassini) with the English name "white-crested hornbill". [5] There are two subspecies, [5] which differ primarily in the amount of white to their head and neck and the presence or absence of white tips to the wing-coverts:
The tips of the long tail feathers are white. The eyes are yellow; the beak is red and presents a stocky casque on the upper mandible. In females, the casque is smaller. The crowned hornbill can be distinguished from the similar Bradfield's hornbill by its shorter beak.
This clade also includes one Southeast Asian species, the white-crowned hornbill. As for the other Asian hornbill species, Buceros and Rhinoplax are each other's closest relatives, Anorrhinus is part of a clade that has Ocyceros and Anthracoceros as sister taxa, and Aceros, Rhyticeros, and Penelopides form another clade.
Hornbills are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly coloured. White-crowned hornbill, Berenicornis comatus; Great hornbill, Buceros bicornis; Brown hornbill, Anorrhinus austeni; Black hornbill, Anthracoceros malayanus
White-crowned hornbill; Mindoro hornbill; Visayan hornbill; Wrinkled hornbill; Sumba hornbill; Accipitriformes. Includes most of the diurnal birds of prey. ...
Hornbills are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly coloured. Crowned hornbill, Lophoceros alboterminatus; Bradfield's hornbill, Lophoceros bradfieldi; African gray hornbill, Lophoceros nasutus