Common Scimitarbill
Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Phoeniculidae
- Genus
- Rhinopomastus
- eBird Code
- cosbil1
Vocalizations
Shaun Swanepoel · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (2)
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Rhinopomastus cyanomelas cyanomelas
Angola and Namibia eastward to northeastern South Africa
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Rhinopomastus cyanomelas schalowi
western Uganda eastward to southern Somalia, southward to eastern South Africa (western KwaZulu-Natal)
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.