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Location

Serengeti
Tanzania

Metadata

Make NIKON D300
Lens Nikkor AF 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6G   at 360 mm
Exposure 1/500, f/5.3, ISO 320 
Image size 703 x 469 pixels

IOC Names

Order  Bucerotiformes   Family  Bucerotidae

Deutsch  Von-der-Decken-Toko Dutch  Von der Decken Tok
Italian  Bucero di Von der Decken Spanish  Toco de Von der Decken

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:
   Von der Decken's Hornbill ( Tockus deckeni)(version 1)




 

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    12/07/2008

Von der Decken Hornbill
Tockus deckeni
Calao de der Decken

Jean-Michel PAULUS