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Where does the Piping Hornbill live?

Bycanistes fistulator has 8,784 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1893 to 2026. Most records come from Ghana.

Piping Hornbill
Piping Hornbill β€” Dotun55 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesBucerotiformesBucerotidaeBycanistes

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Ghana 2,549
Nigeria 1,677
Uganda 1,062
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 694
Gabon 656
Cameroon 469
DR Congo 303
Congo 303
Equatorial Guinea 291
Angola 213
Sierra Leone 136
Liberia 119
Guinea-Bissau 101
Togo 66
Central African Republic 57
Benin 32
Senegal 31
Guinea 21
United States 2
South Africa 2

Related animals

Others in the family Bucerotidae.

African Gray Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
190,769 records
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
140,876 records
Oriental Pied-Hornbill
Oriental Pied-Hornbill
83,699 records
Northern Red-billed Hornbill
79,421 records
Crowned Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
57,078 records
Trumpeter Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
56,932 records
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
53,280 records
African Pied Hornbill
African Pied Hornbill
25,567 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.