Brown-cheeked Hornbill
Bycanistes cylindricus (Temminck, 1831)
Bucerotidae — Hornbills
Brown-cheeked Hornbill, Bycanistes cylindricus, is a hornbill of tropical West Africa, breeding from Sierra Leone to Ghana. It occurs in the Upper Guinean forest zone, including moist deciduous, semi-evergreen mixed forest, mature secondary growth, plantations and other forested areas. It is a large bird with a male that has a yellow, down-curved bill and casque, black upperparts and underparts, reddish-brown cheeks, and white on the rump, belly and tail. The female is smaller and has a black bill and casque. Its range is under pressure from forest loss and fragmentation.
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Bucerotidae — Hornbills
- Breeding range
- Africa: Sierra Leone to Ghana
