Biology:Common scimitarbill
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Short description: Species of bird
| Common scimitarbill | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Phoeniculidae |
| Genus: | Rhinopomastus |
| Species: | R. cyanomelas
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhinopomastus cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1819)
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The common scimitarbill (Rhinopomastus cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa , Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Description
Adults are dark blue. As adults, their beaks are black but as juveniles, their beaks are grey.
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References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Rhinopomastus cyanomelas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22682704A92957169. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22682704A92957169.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22682704/92957169. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhinopomastus cyanomelas. |
- (Scimitarbilled woodhoopoe=) Common scimitarbill – Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Wikidata ☰ Q1079941 entry
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