Species profile
Brown-cheeked Hornbill
Bycanistes cylindricus
Quick answer
Humid forests of Sierra Leone to Ghana
- Scientific name
- Bycanistes cylindricus
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Genus
- Bycanistes
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
Recording Brown-cheeked Hornbill in your journal
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Related species in Bucerotidae
- African Grey Hornbill (Lophoceros nasutus)
- Austen's Brown Hornbill (Anorrhinus austeni)
- Black Hornbill (Anthracoceros malayanus)
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus)
- Black-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna atrata)
- Bradfield's Hornbill (Lophoceros bradfieldi)
- Buceros bisulcatus (Buceros bisulcatus)
- Buceros mindanensis (Buceros mindanensis)