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Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Tockus leucomelas · Family Bucerotidae
Tockus leucomelas
Family Bucerotidae
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 141,278
- Countries and territories with records
- 10
About this species
This species has 141,278 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (76.4%), Namibia (12.1%), Botswana (6.9%) and Zimbabwe (2.9%); together they account for 98.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.27% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tockus leucomelas combines the genus name Tockus with the species epithet leucomelas. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Tockus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tockus erythrorhynchus, Tockus rufirostris and Tockus deckeni.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 58 species of the family Bucerotidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ocyceros birostris. Its record count is 6.2 times the family average (22,815). The family Bucerotidae belongs to the order Bucerotiformes, which has 70 species in the Warbla app catalog.