Editing Tockus

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| name = ''Tockus''
| image = Southern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus rufirostris), Borakalalo NP, South Africa (9822585154).jpg
| image_caption = A female [[southern red-billed hornbill]]
| image2 = Northern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) (022A-WA03044X0014-0010M0).ogg
| image2_caption = Call of a [[northern red-billed hornbill]]
| taxon = Tockus
| authority = [[René Primevère Lesson|Lesson]], 1830
| type_species = ''[[Northern red-billed hornbill|Buceros erythrorhynchus]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=92 |title= Bucerotidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-26}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = ([[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]]), 1823

| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
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'''''Tockus''''' is a [[genus]] of birds in the hornbill family, [[Bucerotidae]], which are native to [[Africa]].

== Description ==
Hornbills in the genus ''Tockus'' are medium-sized African birds with triangular shaped curved bills. They can be found in [[tropical]] and [[sub-tropical]] [[Africa]]n grasslands, forests and savannahs. They all have long tail feathers which are black on the exterior and white on the interior.

==Species==
The genus contains the following ten species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/mousebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 January 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Monteiro's hornbill]] (''Tockus monteiri'')
* [[Red-billed hornbill]] group
** [[Northern red-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus erythrorhynchus'')
** [[Damara red-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus damarensis'')
** [[Southern red-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus rufirostris'')
** [[Tanzanian red-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus ruahae'')
** [[Western red-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus kempi'')
* [[Yellow-billed hornbill]] group
** [[Southern yellow-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus leucomelas'')
** [[Eastern yellow-billed hornbill]] (''Tockus flavirostris'')
* [[Von der Decken's hornbill]] (''Tockus deckeni'')
* [[Jackson's hornbill]] (''Tockus jacksoni'')

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* Gordon Lindsay Maclean - ''Robert's Birds of South Africa'', 6th Edition

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[[Category:Tockus| ]]
[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa]]


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