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Rhinoceros Hornbill
Buceros rhinoceros · Family Bucerotidae
Buceros rhinoceros
Family Bucerotidae
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 20,315
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 20,315 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Malaysia (82.1%), Indonesia (8.5%) and Thailand (7.3%); together they account for 97.9% of the total. In Malaysia, this species accounts for 0.56% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buceros rhinoceros combines the genus name Buceros with the species epithet rhinoceros. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Buceros; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Buceros bicornis and Buceros hydrocorax.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 58 species of the family Bucerotidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ocyceros birostris. Its record count is close to the family average (22,815). The family Bucerotidae belongs to the order Bucerotiformes, which has 70 species in the Warbla app catalog.