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Photo by MarcellC
Kibale Forest, Western Uganda, August 2010
Bycanistes albotibialis

Ceratogymna albotibialis

Identification

Conspicuous black horizontal bar across the tail though and diminutive casque. Also the pale (yellow-ish in good light) eyering.

Distribution

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda.

A new country record for Tanzania in June 2010 during a birding trip in Minziro Forest in NW Tanzania by Emmanual Gongo and Marcell Claassen and another client. Rarities report submitted to East Africa Rarities Committee.

Taxonomy

Sometimes included in the genus Ceratogymna.

Habitat

Behaviour

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