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Location Serengeti Metadata Make NIKON D300 IOC Names Order Bucerotiformes Family Bucerotidae Comments
A hornbill which differs from all other similar species by the unspotted black wing coverts. The adult male has a large red- orange bill with a well-defined creamy-yellow tip while the adult female has an all black bill. The immature resembles the female, but has a duller bill and indistinct white spotting on the wing covers. Calao de der Decken, Tocus deckeni (Cabanis, 1886), Avibase - the world bird database http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=DE36D3BDE3066D13 IOC World Bird Names, version 6.04:
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