Blyth's Hornbill
Rhyticeros plicatus(Pennant, T, 1781)
English (US) Blyth's Hornbill
The Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Bucerotidae (Hornbills) in the order Bucerotiformes.
Range: northern Moluccas eastward to Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rhyticeros plicatus
- Family
- Bucerotidae (Hornbills)
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blyth's Hornbill
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Buceros plicatus
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
- Type locality
- Seram (restricted to "Ceram" by Rothschild & Hartert, 1902. Nov. Zool. 9:587. Based on "Dampier III, 231").
- Original description
- Indische Zoologie oder systematischer Beschreibungen seltener und unbekannter Thiere aus Indien (etc.) p.40
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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