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Piping hornbill

Bycanistes fistulator (Cassin, 1850)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a species in the family Bucerotidae, order Bucerotiformes. Recorded adults weigh 508.1 g to 653.8 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator)
Photo: Dotun55 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the piping hornbill

Weight
508.1 g – 653.8 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
9 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2.25src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the piping hornbill live?

Not recorded

What is the piping hornbill?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) is a bird in the hornbill family. This black-and-white species is found in humid forest and second growth in Central and West Africa, ranging from Senegal east to Uganda and south to Angola. At about 50 cm (20 in) in length, it is the smallest member of the genus Bycanistes.

From the Wikipedia article “Piping hornbill” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piping_hornbill&oldid=1379674013), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the piping hornbill endangered?

The piping hornbill is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the piping hornbill classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderBucerotiformes
  5. familyBucerotidae
  6. genusBycanistes
  7. SpeciesBycanistes fistulator (Cassin, 1850)

Synonyms Bycanistes fisculator, Ceratogymna fistulator

Other names and names in other languages (37)
  • PIHOEnglish
  • Western piping hornbillEnglish
  • Western piping hornbillEnglish
  • White-tailed hornbillEnglish
  • White-tailed hornbillEnglish
  • أبو قرن المزخرفArabic
  • calau xiulador occidentalCatalan
  • zoborožec chechtavýCzech
  • SkrigehornfuglDanish
  • SchreihornvogelGerman
  • West-SchreihornvogelGerman
  • WestschreihornvogelGerman
  • fajfa buceroEsperanto
  • Cálao SilbadorSpanish
  • Cálao silbador occidentalSpanish
  • väike-kiiverlindEstonian
  • kimittäjäsarvinokkaFinnish
  • Calao siffleurFrench
  • crnoglavi kljunorožacCroatian
  • Bucero zufolatoreItalian
  • Bucero fischiatoreItalian
  • パイプコブサイチョウJapanese
  • triukšmingasis ragysLithuanian
  • piphornfuglNorwegian Bokmål
  • FluitneushoornvogelDutch
  • pipehornfuglNorwegian
  • dzioborożec piskliwyPolish
  • calau-assobiadorPortuguese
  • calau-galhofeiroPortuguese
  • Крикливый калаоRussian
  • Крикливый шлеморогRussian
  • zobákorožec strakohlasýSlovak
  • skriknäshornsfågelSwedish
  • Ötücü BoynuzgagaTurkish
  • калао сенегальськийUkrainian
  • 笛声噪犀鸟Chinese
  • 笛聲噪犀鳥Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the piping hornbill

Other species in the same genus Bycanistes.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the piping hornbill?

An adult piping hornbill weighs 508.1 g – 653.8 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the piping hornbill endangered?

The piping hornbill is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the piping hornbill?

The piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator) belongs to the family Bucerotidae in the order Bucerotiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/piping-hornbill

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BibTeX
@misc{piping_hornbill_2026,
  title = {Piping hornbill (Bycanistes fistulator)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/piping-hornbill},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}