Visayan hornbill
The Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini) is a hornbill found in rainforests of Western Visayas region which includes the islands of Panay, Negros,Cebu and Guimaras, as well as the island of Masbate, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines. It formerly included all other Philippine tarictic hornbills as subspecies, in which case the common name of the 'combined species' was shortened to tarictic hornbill.
| Visayan hornbill | |
|---|---|
| Pair at Avifauna in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Genus: | Penelopides |
| Species: | P. panini |
| Binomial name | |
| Penelopides panini (Boddaert, 1783) | |
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